H:selectManyCheckbox values to be passed to backing bean. Please help.

Question

Hello All,
Please find the code below where I am facing some challenges.
When the "QuestionBean.checkBoxEnabled" is true all options on my jsp page are displayed as checkboxes
and when "QuestionBean.radioButtonEnabled" is true radio buttons are displayed.
but on selection of my options and sumbiting them I am not being able to set these options in my backing bean.
Till now I have learnt that when varbatim is used then setting of values is not done, because when I use my code
with out verbatim I get my values in backing bean's setter and getter's.
Please let me know if there is a work around in which I can select my options and subit the page and save them
through backing bean and the verbatim condition also works.
<f:verbatim rendered="#{QuestionBean.checkBoxEnabled}">
<h:selectManyCheckbox id="optionselect2" value="#{QuestionBean.examAnswerList}">
<f:selectItems id="a1" value="#{QuestionBean.alAnswerOptions}"></f:selectItems>
</h:selectManyCheckbox>
</f:verbatim>
<f:verbatim rendered="#{QuestionBean.radioButtonEnabled}">
<h:selectOneRadio id="optionselect" value="#{QuestionBean.examAnswer}">
<f:selectItems id="a2" value="#{QuestionBean.alAnswerOptions}"></f:selectItems>
</h:selectOneRadio>
</f:verbatim>

Answer 1

I don't know about f:verbatim (never used it or need it), but I tend to use Richfaces to do conditional additions, to be more precise the a4j:outputPanel component. With a layout="none" you can conditionally render JSF components without having any content being generated for the outputPanel itself.
Another option I have used is to use the tag library of JBoss Seam: it has neat s:span and s:div tags that are very useful for conditional rendering also.
I'm not saying that you should switch to these APIs, but at least you have some alternatives if you cannot fix your current solution.