JSF Best Practices: Dealing with phone numbers

I am sure this would be benefitial to everyone so... I was wondering what would be the best practice to show/edit/search phone numbers in JSF-based UI? I guess it all depends on the table/attribute definition? Suppose in your table you have
COUNTRY_CODE
AREA_CODE
PHONE (xxx-xxxx)
EXT
how would you design the 'most' user friendly UI? Is there any component with 'pre-built' phone mask?

Hello,
It's funny since I got the same question today in a meeting.
I would write a PhoneNumber and PhoneNumberConverter class. The getAsString would simply returns the (xxx) xxx-xxxx format, the getAsObject method would check to string value against a regex, probably something like: \s*((\(\d{3}\))|(\d{3}\s*-))?\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{4})
That way the user will always see the format xxx-xxxx but will able to enter all those formats:
xxx-xxx-xxxx
xxx - xxx - xxxx
(xxx)xxx-xxxx
(xxx) xxx-xxxx
xxx-xxxx
xxx - xxxx
Regards,
Simon Lessard
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