So I have been struggling with this for a while now but it seems that the answer should be straight forward. The Tomahawk data scroller and other components place parameters such as pageIndex in request scope. I have been trying to access these by going through the variableResolver and have been getting the following exception javax.faces.el.ReferenceSyntaxException: Invalid expression: 'pageIndex'. Parsed Expression of unexpected type java.lang.String
It seems that the reference implementation only allows beans to be accessed in this way while the Data Scolled uses simple String variables. So, [1] How to access (read/write) these request scope string values from a backing bean as we would like our JSFs to automatically return to the same data scroller page in a pagable list when the user re-enters the page. [2] Why is this design implemented over a more standard value-binding expresssion? I feel that there is something fundamental that I have missed so any help is appreciated. Thanks Julian
