Hello monkeyden, You may want to look at the 'required' attribute for the JSF tag you are using.
Dennis Byrne >-----Original Message----- >From: monkeyden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:23 AM >To: users@myfaces.apache.org >Subject: So let me get this straight.... > > >Based on what I've read on this forum, which happens to be a very valuable >resource of mine, I find this to be true (corerect me if I'm wrong and >please excuse my fledgling knowledge of JSF): > >You cannot use a validator to do null value validation on a field, because >JSF doesn't call the validator if there is no value to validate. As a >result, you cannot print custom error messages on the client, unless of >course you validate in the backing bean. >-- >View this message in context: >http://www.nabble.com/So-let-me-get-this-straight....-tf2507926.html#a6993052 >Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
