RE: getting form FORM to Java Object (JSF)

Ok, your problem here is with JSF's generated id/name attributes. Your
specified id="name" is prepended with a parent's id acting as naming
container.

As DWR's get/setValue[s] functions are purely client-side implementations,
and not dependent on your server-side framework, they can only consider
the resulting id/name and these are now different from the property names
in your person object.

Possible solutions:

1) Ask JSF not to rewrite the ids on these elements. I'm by no means a JSF
   expert but I've seen this:
     JSF 1.2: form prependId=false
     Myfaces: input forceId=true
   Check what your chosen JSF implementation can offer. It's probably
   better to ask further questions on this subject in a JSF forum but it
   would be nice if you can report back your findings here.
   [Not rewriting the ids assume you don't have any other elements with
   the same id that may interfere.]

2) Change the members of your person object to match the generated ids.
   Probably not desired, but anyway:
     person["j_id2:name"] = "Donald";
     dwr.util.setValues(person);

3) Use setValue calls for every property instead of setValues:
     dwr.util.setValue("j_id2:name", person.name);
     ... etc ...

4) Updating setValues() in 2.0.4 as it currently has almost the support
   you need:
     dwr.util.setValues(person, {prefix:"j_id2"});
   The above will map
     person.name -> id "j_id2.name"
   and so forth. Note the separating dot instead of colon. We could add
   a new option for configuring the separator character:
     dwr.util.setValues(person, {prefix:"j_id2",separator:":"});
   that would then map
     person.name -> id "j_id2:name"
   What does everybody think - is this the correct (and desired) way
   of tackling this issue or is the JSF id thingie too complex to
   handle properly anyway, and should be avoided?

Best regards
Mike

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