JBO-35007 in Portletized ADF Faces Page and alternative scenarios

Question

Hi all,
I've started a new thread to address one of the problems referred to here Issues with Faces -> Portlet Bridge and ADF Faces
In short, the issue arises when portletizing an existing ADF Faces page that uses an ADF BC bound af:Table on the page. I've got a very simple ADF Faces page that has an af:Table on it bound to the employees table in the Oracle HR schema. The af:Table allows sorting and has an af:selectTableOne in it's selection facet which contains an af:commandButton. The app works fine when run as a JSF page.
However, when I use the JSF-Portlet bridge to publish the page as a portlet (following all of the steps in the Web Center Developer's guide, including changing the state_saving_method to "server"), and placing the portlet on a ADF Faces page in a different project, I can consistently create JBO-35007 errors by:
* Sorting the data in the portlet by clicking the column header
* Selecting a different row and pressing the af:commandButton
Clearly, the current row of the iterator is not being saved properly. I can (of course) "fix" this behavior by setting EnableTokenValidation to "false" in the page definition of the ADF Faces page that has been portletized, but this has obvious side effects.
Should this behavior work as I am trying to implement it? Perhaps it doesn't make sense to "select" an item in a portlet like this (what am I going to do, as the parent application doesn't have access to the selected row information).
I can, however, think of a good use case:
User is using a web-store type application to browse items and add them to his shopping cart. Off to the side, we've got a portlet that shows recently purchased items for the user. User clicks item in that portlet (or selects and hits submit - as in my non-working example, above) and then the main web store application navigates to that item in the "main" section. How could I implement something like this? Any navigation case in the portlet is not exposed to the main application. Perhaps there is a different model by which to do this.... I cannot use a PDK event-type approach (this limits my use of Faces to create portlets), so I'm in a bind.
Thoughts and discussion much appreciated,
John

Answer 1

Peter,
This should be so simple to re-create; here's my project: http://download.yousendit.com/F017E4D457FFA7F3
It uses the HR sample schema from a stock 10gr2 database. Be sure to set up the ADF BC connection in the model project, build and deploy the portlets, then try running TestPage.jspx in the UserInterface project. You can play around with the pagedef in the Portlet project to see the JBO-35007 error - right now, EnableTokenValidation is set to false - you can change it to true to see the error.
John