ADF bindings are not working with inheritance heirarchy.

Question

ADF bindings are not working with inheritance heirarchy. I am using embedded OC4J in JDeveloper 10.1.3.2.
For the data model I have the following objects\attributes.
1) User (abstract EJB 3.0 POJO)
- Id
- userId
- userName
2) Employee -> extends User (EJB 3.0 POJO)
- enabled
- password
3) Manager -> extends Employee (EJB 3.0 POJO)
- numOfEmployees
4) UserSessionBean (Stateless Session Bean)
- public User findUserByUserId(String userId)
- public List<User> queryUserFindAll()
- Object mergeEntity(Object entity)
I created 2 JSF pages using ADF.
1) ListUsers.jspx - Lists all the users of type Employee and Manager in a table. You can select an user and chose to modify the user details using a modify button.
2) ModifyUser.jspx - Modify the selected user and persist the modified user details.
I implemented ListUsers.jspx by dragging and dropping queryUserFindAll() method from the ADF datacontrol on to the JSF page and selected ADF Table format with selection enabled.
Similarly for the ModifyUser.jspx page I dragged and dropped the User object returned by findUserByUserId(String userId) and selected ADF Form format. I selected OutputText field types for userId and userName.
I then created a navigation case from ListUsers.jspx to ModifyUser.jspx and pass the selected user.
Now when I try to run the web application, ListUsers.jspx correctly displays all the users. Then I select a user of type Employee and click on the modify button. This brings up the ModifyUser.jspx page. However, the UserId text field displays the value for "Id" field rather than "userId".
Question that I have is:
- Why is ADF framework not able to retrieve the appropriate user attribute value for a Employee based on the binding information in case of inheritance ?
Thanks,
Piyush

Answer 1

Hi,
tried with JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 and this works for me. Try JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 - if it doesn't work, have a closer look at your sessionFacade
Frank