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 [...]

Possibly a testament to why people hate the JCP, that style of bureaucracy, and why almost everything that isn’t touched by it actually gets things done, I ran into what I would consider a blocker when it was requested that I have the currency symbol and percent signs optional for form inputs using f:convertNumber and [...]

I have been banging on this project’s view with a few different technologies. I prototyped the thing in ZK, which turned out to be a complete piece of shit after trying to get it to work in a real world scenario. (More on that later.) Now it’s all about JSF. ICEfaces has some pretty neat [...]

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 [...]