BigDecimal converters

After today it looks as if choosing to use BigDecimal (for whatever reason) may have a challenge with regard to having both automated conversion and using a pattern to format your numbers.

So it sounds like it is time create a custom converter which extends the BigDecimal converter from JSF, and putting numeric patterns on top of it.

I will let you know how it goes...

...OK: it went well: I discovered that the creators of the application I am working on had already created such a converter. So I just use f:converter component, and reference the id of this component that was created; since the custom converters must be registered in faces-config.xml, you can just get the id from there if you are utilizing a pre-existing custom converter.

It turns out this converter hard-coded the format string. So I just loaded the resource bundle with the format string in it and use that instead. That way there is only once source in the application for the desired format string.