I have a screen with some inputtext boxes with some special validation I
want to do on each of them (I am doing the function validation
validator="#{somebean.somemethod}". The problem I am having is this, it
seems that if the user does not make any changes and they just hit submit,
jsf never goes into any of my validate methods. And when I put the
required=true in the tag and does its own validation. What can I do?