Probably better to ask on the 'users' list or the JSF list of there is
one but...
It depends on your architecture if you are using managed beans to
retrieve your data and populate the backing beans manually then you
would perform the required split and concat at the point where the
managed bean and the backing beans interface.
--Gordon
allpurpose wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using JSF Sun RI and Toplink for ORM for web app.
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> Would you tell me if there is a way to split a field in an entity bean and
> bind to 2 seperate web components? For example, customer entity mapping to
> an DB table customer which has name, address.... I retrieve a list of
> customers and need to split name into first name, last name and bind them
> seperately to 2 htmlOutputText? Also how to concatenate firstname and
> lastname entered back to name and persist customer object back to DB? Can
> this be achieved by only the entity bean and page backing bean?
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> Not sure if this is the right place to ask. Thanks.
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