The question is: how is this value used? Is it used to validate the values sent at submit, to ensure that the same request is not sent twice? The original reason why the viewstate exists is because HTTP is stateless. The state of the components across requests need to be maintained one way or the … Read more
Replace @FacesConverter(value = “categoryConverter”) by @Named and use <h:inputSomething converter=”#{categoryConverter}” /> or <f:converter binding=”#{categoryConverter}” /> instead of <h:inputSomething converter=”categoryConverter” /> or <f:converter converterId=”categoryConverter” /> By the way, similar problem exist for @EJB inside a @FacesConverter. It however offers a way to be grabbed by JNDI manually. See also Communication in JSF 2.0 – Getting an … Read more
Why do I need more jars if I use MyFaces? Because those commons-* dependencies are not bundled in MyFaces. On the other hand, if you’re using other libraries from Apache.org which also use those commons-* dependencies, then you ultimately end up with smaller total size libraries. Noted should be that since Mojarra 2.1.6 a single … Read more