Creation of object with sub-objects in ADF Faces

Question

I am trying to create an object that has associated sub-objects (header/detail) using ADF Faces. The user enters the header information in an ADF Form, then he creates detail data. Example: If the object is a PO, user creates the PO header info and, in an ADF table, he creates the PO lines.
The problem is I am not able to figure how to bind the ADF table to the object that is being created. In a normal master-detail form, you drag the associated list from the Data Control palette and JDev automatically creates an accessor iterator that "feeds off" the master iterator. But, in this case, the associated list does not appear in the data control palette. Nor am I certain that is the right thing to do, anyway.
Help! This seems like it would be a common pattern.
Ara

Answer 1

Sorry. Here is some more information:
1. The project is for tracking duplication jobs requests.
2. Data Model--DocumentTicket and JobDocument objects are EJB 3.0 JPA objects. DocumentTicket has a getter (getJobDocuments) to retrieve a List<JobDocument> of related job documents. JobTicketManager is the session bean that encapsulates most business methods.
3. I am using ADF Faces bindings to "publish" the data model to the GUI.
4. In the GUI, I dragged/dropped the DocumentTicket constructor from the data control palette to create the document ticket. This created the appropriate method action bindings, as well as the DocumentTicketIter iterator to iterate over the constructor result.
5. Of course, the user also needs to specify the related job documents. In the GUI, I would like to have an ADF table that displays the current job documents, and a button labeled "Add Document" that is wired to a pop-up dialog. The idea is that the user clicks on the "Add Document" button, enters the information about the new JobDocument object. The object is then created and the table is updated with a new row. The table is also used to manipulate the list of job documents (chiefly, it allows the user to change their listed order).
Step 5 is where I am having trouble. I can see how to create the pop-up dialog, how to wire it to the JobDocument constructor, how to update the data model. The problem is: I do not know to which object I should wire the JobDocument table. Logically, I should be able to wire it to the jobDocumentList property. However, that is not displayed in the data control palette under the constructor results (it is displayed elsewhere; for example, under the result of the findAllDocumentTickets method).
I suppose I could create a separate finder method in the session bean, but then how do I connect it to the object being constructed (i.e., to the JobDocumentIter iterator)?
Either I am missing something here or I am hitting some limitation of the ADF binding framework.
Ara