JSF 1.2 DataTable management during view creation

Question

Hi all, I have a question on how JSF 1.2 manages DataTable exactly. Consider this table (suppose that tableList.persone has 3 items):
<h:dataTable id="tablePersone" value="#{tableList.persone}" var="item">
<h:column>
          <f:facet name="header">
          <h:outputText value="STATO" />
          </f:facet>
          <h:inputText value="#{item.stato}" />
     </h:column>
     <h:column>
          <f:facet name="header">
          <h:outputText value="CODICE" />
          </f:facet>
          <h:inputText value="#{item.codice}" />
     </h:column>
</h:dataTable>
I read that jsf iterates over the items of the list during the render response phase, in fact, "item" is not available when the view is built.
Does it means that jsf does not duplicate the content of the table for each item in the list when creating the tree component?
In the table above, each row has 2 inputText. If jsf does not create a couple of inputText objects for each row, how jsf handles all the 6 request parameters when the form is submitted (in particular during the apply request values phase).
Thanks a lot,
Nico

Answer 1

I could be really mean right now in my answer.
I did not even have to post anything, i choose to use MyFaces 1.2.1 and scraped JSF 1.2_06 SUN RI out of my projects lib folder.
Sorry dude that's the reality, the exceptions the SUN RI threw does not help me in trying to work on real life applications.
You know i have read that Sun RI implementation is probably best out there since work began on the 1.2 spec way before Apache MyFaces started, hence potentially less buggy.
I picked up the latest code from SUN RI and encountered at least 3 exceptions that are very low level and hard to mitigate.
While without any JSF pages modifications i plugged in MyFaces 1.2.1-Snapshot and not a single NullPointerException or a failure.
I just want to reflect here on this situation because i have been always defending SUN and it's work against other packages
but my situation with upgrading from 1.1 to JSF 1.2 really puts a dent in my conviction
specially where UI is such a risky business for us developers in the Web industry.
this Forum probably is taking me longer then if i just logged the issue against RI.
But my point is that when such frameworks are being developed they should be tested against real large applications under many industry problems.
I am after getting this point across, because right now i don't care if you these exceptions are being fixed i dumped your packages anyway.
Now i know MyFaces have their own problems, but at this moment they are not my issues, my project works using their implementation and that's the story .