cum grano salis — nobody likes a clever bastard

I have finally had some time to sit down and figure out why submitted form data was disappearing when there were form validation errors. I tracked it down to facelets.BUILD_BEFORE_RESTORE, yet another one of Facelets completely undocumented features.
You may be wondering why I had it enabled in the first place, since I didn’t read the [...]

Apparently, it’s too much to ask to get a single line change in an open source project these days. It must be the economy. So, if you want ui:debug to work with SWF, and you happen to be using something approximately around Facelets 1.1.15, here’s the diff:

I’ve been hunting down bugs all day and getting next to nothing done. After finding that Spring would rather convert a String into a bunch of smaller Strings than let me do my work, I find even more. Fortunately, this one was a cinch.
Needing something to do role-based conditional processing in my JSF pages, I [...]