> >Dude, you're getting yourself bogged down on things that you > typically > don't need to understand. > > I would disagree. This speaks to what I am trying to > accomplish right now > with my datascroller problem. I didn't understand some of > the details of > datascroller when I implemented it, and now I have lists all > over the place > that will most likely have to be re-written with custom code.
These are two different issues - you're looking at how to get the server side component to function with large datasets, but the OP is trying to figure out how the hidden fields are used on the client side and server side. That's apples and oranges, as I see it. Sure we, as JSF developers, need to know how to use the components and how to develop pages that perform as we need/expect. Unless you plan on being a myfaces core contributor, saying you need to know all of the internals in order to understand the concepts is like saying you need to see all of the trees before in order to understand you're looking at a forest.
