Werner,
I think you're right, I guess it'll take some time to get used to thinking
in the JSF way. I'll check out the popup library.
thanks,
Saul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Werner Punz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: commandLink not working inside <t:dataTable>
Well, Saul, golden rule is unfortunately, what you can cover with
components
usually is very easy in jsf, what you cannot cover with components is
rather
hard to solve, due to the higher abstraction,
there however if you cannot encapsule that stuff in a component for reuse
(there is an excellent popup component set on the net btw... link will
follow)
you always can manually fall back to jsp, which I had to do in any of my
projects so far
to a small degree, that eases things a lot.
The problem is that you ofte are on a higher level and things feel so
natural like a real ui
in many cases that you instantly thing you have to solve problems the jsf
way, which probably
cannot be solved in a short time jsf like if you run into them. And then
forget
that there still is the possibiltiy of a simple jsp fallback)
Btw. here is the link to the popup library:
http://www.jenia.org/
that should resolve your popup problems in a better way than with jsp.
Werner
Saul Qunming Yuan wrote:
Thanks Nebojsa & Navid for your reponses, that help a lot. It makes a
lot sense now. What's puzzling me is, this is a such a common use case,
why it's so complicated to make it to work in JSF. It takes minutes
in JSP. I'm now starting another task, ie, opening a popup in
JSF. Another few minutes job in JSP, looks like another can of worm in
JSF. Well, that's for later.
Saul
