How do I know if a form has been successfully validated?

Question

I have a form with a bunch of text fields. When users submit() the form, I display the updated form in "Read-Only" mode, by setting up textField.setReadOnly(true). However, I don't want the form to go Read-Only if the validation was not successfull. Is there a way to figure out of the validation was successful or not? (something like this.form1.isValid(), etc.)
Thanks

Answer 1

I agree that putting afterUpdateModelValues will do the trick, but I do not agree that it is necessary to do so.
With the JSF lifecycle, the action method is not called if there are conversion or validation errors.
Here is a very simple example that illustrates this. Create a page (make it the start page)
Add textField1, button1, and messageGroup1.
Set required to true (check the box) for textField1.
Double-click the button and change the action method as follows:
    public String button1_action() {
        error("action method called");
        return null;
    }Run the program. Don't put anything in the text field and click the button. You will not see the message "action method called". Now put something in the text field and click the button. Now you see the message.
So, how are you validating the fields? (1) Are you using validators from the palette, as shown in http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/learning/tutorials/2/validators_converters.html? (2) Or are you writing your own custom validators, as shown in http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/learning/tutorials/2/customvalidator.html.
If (2), are you throwing ValidatorExceptions?