10g: Data Binding in event handlers?

Question

I'm trying to use data binding in my event handlers so that I can have a definitive source for the Strings that name things like this. I can see that the page is getting generated with the proper names on the elements in the page, but I always get an UnhandledEventException when I trigger the event. The idea is something like this:
        <submitButton text="Refresh" event="${ pageBean.controlRefreshEventName }" >
        </submitButton>
        <submitButton text="Hide Controls" event="${ pageBean.controlHideEventName }" >
        </submitButton>
    <handlers>
        <event name="${ pageBean.controlRefreshEventName }">
            <method class="com.avega.portlets.view.EventHandler"
                    method="handleControlFormSubmit"/>
        </event>
        <event name="${ pageBean.controlHideEventName }">
            <method class="com.avega.portlets.view.EventHandler"
                    method="handleControlFormSubmit"/>
        </event>
    </handlers>
...Now in my EventHandler I would be able to use the getXXXName methods when checking for which submit button was hit. Except I'm getting an exception instead.
(BTW, I only have the two event tags because I wasn't sure how to concatenate the el expressions with a space...)

Answer 1

No, there's no indication that anything is wrong until I cause the event and get the UnhandledEventException.
However, I did the an experiment with the following tags, the first in a plain JSP, the second in a UIX page, and it seems that this is the normal way of handling a non-existant bean reference. Both cases printed 'text' in the page and did not complain that 'noBean' didn't exist. It seems you get an error when you reference a non-existant property on an existing bean, but no error if the bean itself doesn't exist. Anyway, UIX doesn't appear to be any different from JSP in this regard.
<c:out value="${ noBean.noProperty } text" />
<styledText text="${ noBean.noProperty } text" />