> > Is there a way to make the inputText writable when it gets its value > > from an EL expression ? > > If the component is editable, but there is no setter for the component > to store its new value into during postback, then what should it do? > > In your example, there is no way that any data entered by the used can > be written back to "fn:join(somevar)", so any user data entered would > have to be thrown away on postback. Therefore when there is no setter > method, the *only* sane thing to do is make the component non-editable > or disabled.
that's why Trinidad's EditableValueRenderer (a base class) has an extra check against the EL, if it is read-only. Standard JSF doesn't do that. -M > > Maybe what you are asking is for the component to be *disabled* rather > than *read-only*? That would seem to be reasonable..but how can a > "writable" field possibly be useful here? > > Regards, Simon > > -- Matthias Wessendorf further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org