After four hours of reading posts, tutorials, and docu, I am now going to throw myself at the mercy of this user list.
The project I'm working on is using myfaces 1.1.4 in conjunction with tomahawk and tiles. Forget for a minute that we could upgrade to at least myfaces 1.1.7. The versions of third party libraries are pretty much set in stone for the project. The problem is this: I am trying to get a reference to a backing bean in an action bean. This is to say that I have two managed beans - one is a pojo to collect the information from a simple web form, scoped to request. The other holds business logic, scoped to application, and has the method to be called by the h:commandButton action attribute, referenced by EL. What I want to happen is when a user presses the save button, the commandButton component calls the action method on the business object *magic happens* and the business object gets a reference to the pojo with the information from the form. I've been looking at integrating Spring Webflow into Myfaces in order to use webflow's much better scoping for web conversations, but there's a section in webflow's documentation that scares me: http://static.springsource.org/spring-webflow/docs/2.0.x/reference/html/ch12s03.html "The Spring Faces components require the use of Facelets instead of JSP, so the typical Facelets configuration must be added as well when using these components." I don't want to use facelets because it isn't approved, and I cannot find any definitive proof that I can use myfaces and tiles instead and still be able to defer flows and IOC to spring webflow rather than the JSF context. So. Is there a way to get references to the pojo in the action bean, and otherwise is there a way to defer to Spring webflow without having to use Facelets? ___________________________________________________________ John O'Grady Dragon Tamer Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. - George Santayana Qui tacet consentit (Silence implies consent) ___________________________________________________________
