It seems the code JSF 2.0 controls aren't updating backing beans

[Glenn Davidson]

I have a simple screen doing an inputText which is mapped to a managed bean in session scope. when the screen is displayed I see the "get" method called but when I enter the data the "set" method is never fired. I have written JSP 1.2 applications and I had a similar problem but that was fixed by adding the <a4j:form> tag into the xhtml. I tried adding <a4j:form> to the JSF 2.0 page and I git an error that A4J didn't have a tag for form. In addition the <f:verbatim> is also not working which leads me to think many of the "core" JSF tags are not working.

The project is built on JBoss 6.0 libraries with Richfaces 4.0. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I am hoping I have just made a simple mistake.

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j" xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"> <style type="text/css"> .rich-message-marker img { padding-right: 7px; } .rich-message-label { color: red; } </style> <f:view> <rich:panel> <f:facet name="header"> <h:outputText value="Validation Form" /> </f:facet> <h:form> <h:panelGrid columns="3"> <h:outputText value="Name:" /> <h:inputText label="Name" id="name" required="true" value="#{daypartbean.name}"> <f:validateLength minimum="3" /> </h:inputText> <rich:message for="name"> <f:facet name="errorMarker"> <h:outputText value="error message" /> </f:facet> </rich:message> <f:facet name="footer"> <a4j:commandButton value="Validate" /> </f:facet> </h:panelGrid> </h:form> </rich:panel> </f:view> </ui:composition>
With this backing bean:

package com.cablevision.marketing.mpa.view;

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;

@ManagedBean(name="daypartbean")
@SessionScoped
public class DayPartBean {
private String name;

public String getName() {
	System.out.println("Get name: " + this.name);
	return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
	System.out.println("Change name: " + this.name);
	this.name = name;
}

}

[Tim Holloway]

a4j:form is obsolete. Use the general-purpose "h:form" tag, instead.

You are correct. Any control that is not contained within a JSF form will not properly process. And, of course, even if it is contained in a form, if any component of that form fails validation when the form is submiitted, none of the controls on that form will update the backing bean.