By: Ed Eaglehouse

Ed Eaglehouse — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:15:52 +0000

This article explains a function that would be extremely useful to me. But I’m new to ADF/JSF and having some trouble implementing it in an application that does not use JHeadstart, just plain ADF Faces.

I created a FacesPageLifecycle and PhaseListener extension classes, registered the new PhaseListener in the Life Cycle section of faces-config.xml, made a genericBindings managed bean of class oracle.adf.model.binding.DCBindingContainer, overrode the prepareModel method of the FacesPageLifecycle extension class to initialize the container, and created a new Application Module exposing a SysdateView1 data control. No data is being returned from the example Sysdate data control.

I noticed my Page Definition had an ID of “WEB_INF_GenericServicesPageDef” instead of “GenericServicesPageDef” as in your article, so I changed my prepareModel() override to use the name I found, but it made no difference. Your description of initializing the generic BindingContainer was confusing to me and I didn’t know what applied and what didn’t. I used the prepareModel() method exactly as listed in the article. Using “#{genericBindings.SysdateView1Sysdate.inputValue}” from my JSP page – it’s simply “#{bindings.SysdateView1Sysdate.inputValue}” on my GenericServices.jsp page – does not display any value.

I tried running the debugger, but my customized FacesPageLifecycle extension class doesn’t seem to be called.

Can you make any suggestions as to how I can tell what’s going wrong and how to fix it?

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By: Ed Eaglehouse