Newbie help

[JSFSter Smith]

Hi,

I have just started using MyFaces for a new project and had a couple of questions while I am on the learning curve. Any help/response is greatly appreciated.  Its been a pleasure to actually create  JSP pages with no java code using JSF in them and I hope to keep them that way!


1. <h:commandLink> tag does not work inside a <t:dataTable> tag
     and ends up refreshing the same page from where the link was clicked without any updates to the model. The get/set  methods for the corresponding backing bean member are never called by the framework

    I looked through the mail archives for myFaces as well as JSF RI. This seems to be an issue faced by many users and the suggested work around is to make the backing bean that contains the table data a session bean (currently mine is a request). Is this a bug with the spec or am I missing something ?

2. <h:commandButton> with a request scope backing bean cannot be used to pass request parameters to the next page using <f:param> tags.
    The <h:commandLink> tag has to be used instead. Again is this a bug or I am missing something?

Currently, I am using h:commandLinks for  my request param passing and it works fine. But this leads me to my final question:

3. I am trying to map the enter key to my command link (which is an image) using _javascript_ and have included a snippet below.
   
   if (keycode == 13) {

       document.forms['MyJSFForm'].elements['submitLink'].click()
        return false;
    }

    I have explicitly given id's to my form and commandLink. The _javascript_ object for the link is invalid

Thanks in advance for your response!

- Rajiv