Sounds like you need (da da daaaaa) Faces Trace: http://www.jroller.com/page/cagataycivici?entry=rise_of_the_faces_trace
Okay, so I've never used it but it sounds like it might just help you figure out where, when and why your JSF + Shale application is stuck. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 4:47 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Shale's dialog manager is driving me nuts! > WOOHOO!!! Thanks Craig. Now I know the reason why it didn't forward to step > 2, > but I'm still stuck :( > It displays "Conversion error occurred."....for string fields. > Errr...??? > > The person bean has all the fields with according getters/setters > private String firstName; > private String lastName; > private String title; > private Date dateOfBirth; > > rgds Sander LOL...I found out that I had several newbie mistakes in my conf. First, I was referencing to "personBean" in my dialog jsp. Note that the real name for the bean described in my faces-config was "personDataBean". Secondly, when entering the dialog I put the initialized bean into the session under the name "dialog.data" and in the jsp I should have referenced to "dialog.data" bean and not "personDataBean". I fixed all that and right now I don't get any more misleading errormessages but I'm still stuck in the first dialog page :P I also commented out the date part in the jsp so there wouldn't be any converting. Now what ? rgds Sander --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]