ADF jars killing my commandLink(s)

Question

I am trying to incorporate Oracle's ADF into my project, but, I ran across a strange problem. To reproduce this problem all I had to do was copy the adf (EA8) jar files into my lib directory. I DO NOT have so much as a taglib callout in any of my pages - yet, when the jar files are in my lib directory, my h:commandLink tags, nested in a dataTable tag, are rendered useless.
Here is my code:
<h:dataTable rendered="#{userReport.hasviews}" value="#{userReport.views}" var="e">
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="View Name"/>
</f:facet>
<h:commandLink action="#{viewHandler.editview}" value="#{e.name}"/>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
When the ADF jars are NOT in my lib directory, this is rendered as:
<tr>
<td><a href="# onclick="document.forms['MyViewsview:_id35'['MyViewsview:_id35:_idcl'].value='MyViewsview:_id35:_id36:1:_id39'; document.forms['MyViewsview:_id35'].submit(); return false;">New MyView</a></td>
<td>1.3</td>
<td>9/4/04</td>
<td>10/16/04</td>
</tr>
However, after copying the jars to the lib directory, it is rendered as:
<tr>
<td><a id="MyViewsview:_id35:_id36:1:_id39" name="MyViewsview:_id35:_id36:1:_id39" onclick="submitForm('MyViewsview:_id35',1,{event:'MyViewsview:_id35:_id36:1:_id39',source:'MyViewsview:_id35:_id36:1:_id39'});return false;" href="#" class="OraLink">New MyView</a></td>
<td>1.3</td>
<td>9/4/04</td>
<td>10/16/04</td>
</tr>
The net result is that when I select (click on) the link, I get nothing - no page navigation...
So, my questions are:
1) why would just copying the jars to the lib directory cause this change?
2) how do I get around this, so that I can use ADF successfully?
As always, any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Answer 1

Adam -
The Commonea8.js is being included by default. The problem seems to be in hidden fields being generated by (I suppose) adf framework. I should mention that this does not occur on all my h:commandLink tags. Others work just fine. Perhaps it has something to do with being nested within a dataTable...
At any rate, before showing the errors and the lines causing the errors, a little explanation may be necessary. This page is built from two jsp:include pages. One is name login, which is not being rendered (due to render="false") and the other named dataview (which is being rendered).
So, the js errors (from the console) are:
Error: missing ( before formal parameters
Source File: http://localhost:8084/myapp/data.faces
Line: 241, Column: 15
Source Code:
function login:id2Validater(form){return true;}
Error: missing ; before statement
Source File: http://localhost:8084/myapp/data.faces
Line: 289, Column: 21
Source Code:
var resetdataview:id35Names=["event","source"];
Error: missing ( before formal parameters
Source File: http://localhost:8084/myapp/data.faces
Line: 289, Column: 21
Source Code:
function dataview:id35Validater(form){return true;}
The (2) offending lines (in the rendered HTML) are:
line 241:
<input type="hidden" name="oracle.adf.faces.FORM" value="login:_id2"><span id="_login:_id2_Postscript"><script>function login:id2Validater(form){return true;}</script></span><script>_submitFormCheck();</script></form></td>
line 289 (source of two errors):
<input type="hidden" name="oracle.adf.faces.FORM" value="dataview:_id35"><span id="_dataview:_id35_Postscript"><input type="hidden" name="event"><input type="hidden" name="source"><script>var resetdataview:id35Names=["event","source"];</script><script>function dataview:id35Validater(form){return true;}</script></span><script>_submitFormCheck();</script></form></td>
Hope this helps... Just out of curiosity, why would Oracle "pull in" the default RenderKit instead of keeping their's separate? (just wondering)
Thanks, again....