EUreka I think it is working!
returnes:
Ok, so where does this leave me now?
So now I know deviceCollection contains the intended value...finally after three days
OK, so what am I needing it to do now...
I will have to type this out again to get my thoughts flowing..
So deviceCOllection is of type DeviceCollection, which is just private Collection<Device> devices; with setter and getter...
the value contained in deviceCollection is an InputStream and looks like:
I am needing to take the value of each child node and bind it to something (TreeNode I think) and then I can use that to populate my richfaces tree.
Hmm, so something similar to the code I used to check the values it was holding would seem appropriate since it did return the value I was wanting.
I think Im close now, its so nice. Such a love hate relationship with programming. Trying to figure it out your in the lowest lows but when something work it is the highest high