How do link form input and a datatable that are on the same page?

Question

I am real new to JSF, so I'm having the following issue...
I created a demo app that will pull records from from a database and display them in a datatable. I hava a backingbean for this process that works great with hardcoded data.
Now, I want to add a form to this page and use the form input to drive the results in the datatable. I have created my form and used a separate backingbean that is essentially a JavaBean for all the form input.
My question is how do I integrate the submit button from this new form to feed the call that is used for the datatable?
Here's is a snippet of the pertinent code from the JSP:
<TABLE border="0">
               <TBODY>
                    <TR>
                         <TD>
                         <P>Correlation ID:</P>
                         </TD>
                         <TD><h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="correlationId"
                              value="#{LogMessageBean.correlationId}"></h:inputText></TD>
                         <TD width="121"></TD>
                         <TD width="153">
                         <P>Workflow ID:</P>
                         </TD>
                         <TD width="158"><h:inputText styleClass="inputText" id="workItemId"
                              value="#{LogMessageBean.workItemId}"></h:inputText></TD>
                    </TR>
               </TBODY>
          </TABLE>
          <BR>
          <div align="center">
          <h:commandButton value="Search" actionListener="#{LogValueListHandler.search}" action="#{LogValueListHandler.result}"/>
          <h:commandButton value="Reset" onclick="reset()"/></div>
          <H5>Application Logging Results</H5>
          <t:dataTable value="#{LogValueListHandler.logList}" var="feed"
               rowClasses="oddrow, evenrow" headerClass="table">
               <t:column>
                    <f:facet name="header">
                         <h:outputText value="ClassName" />
                    </f:facet>
                    <h:outputText value="#{feed.className}" />
               </t:column>
               <t:column>
                    <f:facet name="header">
                         <h:outputText value="MethodName" />
                    </f:facet>
                    <h:outputText value="#{feed.methodName}" />
               </t:column>
...Thanks!

Answer 1

Locutus_1,
I'm working on the same sort of app - A data table where the record selected is displayed in a form below the datatable and may be edited and saved.
I've included a checkbox in the datatable so that the user can indicate which record is to be displayed and edited. The have everything working, except that I cannot get the checkbox click event passed to the backing bean correctly (critical to the entire operation). When I have this working, I'll post the code.
This solution does not have a direct link between the datatable model and the data handled by the form. The backing bean code does this. If there was a solution where the two could be linked directly via JSF, I'd be very interested in it.
Werner