Jsf 1.2_08 gives me blank page when i use h:panelGrid with binding attribut

Question

I am using jsf 1.2_08 (Mojarra 1.2_08-b06-FCS) + jstl-1.2.jar + Apache Tomcat/6.0.6 + jdk1.5.0_08 on linux suse server. when i load a jsp page with a h:panelGrid, i get a blank page
my panelGrid is as follows
<h:panelGrid id="financialProjections" binding="#{veusSituationMonitorDisplayBean.financialProjections}" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" columnClasses="nspLabel w200,ra bl,ra bl,ra bl,ra bl,ra bld,ra bl,ra bl" columns="8" width="100%"/>
when i remove the binding attribute, rest of the page displays fine.
Thanks in Advance
my web.xml is
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
<param-value>server</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>AJAXServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>net.em.servlets.AJAXServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>InitialLizeApplicationbeansServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>net.em.servlets.InitialLizeApplicationBeanServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>AJAXServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/abc.ajax</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>ExtensionsFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>
net.em.emrp.filters.EMExtensionsFilter
</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>uploadMaxFileSize</param-name>
<param-value>10m</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>uploadThresholdSize</param-name>
<param-value>100k</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>ResponseOverrideFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.displaytag.filter.ResponseOverrideFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
720 <!-- minutes -->
</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ExtensionsFilter</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ResponseOverrideFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ResponseOverrideFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/error404.html</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<error-code>500</error-code>
<location>/error500.html</location>
</error-page>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://ajaxtags.org/tags/ajax</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/ajaxtags.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
</web-app>

Answer 1

BalusC wrote:
I rather mean that you shouldn't instantiate the HtmlPanelGrid in the bean yourself, but just use the instance which is set through the setter during the restore_view phase.BalusC, why do you recommend this? The spec allows for the bean to create the component:
*JSF 1.2, section 3.1.5* says:
When a component instance is first created (typically by virtue of being referenced by a UIComponentELTag in a JSP page), the JSF implementation will retrieve the ValueExpression for the name binding, and call getValue() on it. If this call returns a non-null UIComponent value (because the JavaBean programmatically instantiated and configured a component already), that instance will be added to the component tree that is being created. If the call returns null, a new component instance will be created, added to the component tree, and setValue() will be called on the ValueBinding (which will cause the property on the JavaBean to be set to the newly created component instance).