af:iterator

I was trying to use af:forEach with a custom component I made. This custom component is a bit like the declarative components in ADF Faces Rich Client components, in that it renders different components depending on what type you send it. I was trying to pass a value binding through an attributes and then trying to evaluate the value of this in the component at encode time, but the af:forEach request scope "var" variable could not be evaluated by the property resolver. af:iterator, I am happy to say, for some reason did something different however so the "var" was more accessable to the child custom component.

There was another project also where af:forEach really was acting up, where I wish I had known about af:iterator.

The inspiration to try this component came from Duncan Mills blog entry http://groundside.com/blog/DuncanMills.php?blog=6&c=1&page=1&more=1&title=jsf_and_the_foreach_loop&tb=1&pb=1&disp=single