JSF inputText Field localization

Hi!
I tried to create the same search field as we have it here on the upper right corner and localize it.
<h:inputText id="search" value="#{bundle.search}" onfocus= 'if (this.value=="#{bundle.search}") this.value=""' />But every time on submitting i got following exception:
javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /pages/header.xhtml @109,146 value="#{bundle.search}": /pages/header.xhtml @106,58 value="#{bundle.search}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'bundle' resolved to null
     com.sun.facelets.el.TagValueExpression.getType(TagValueExpression.java:62)
     com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicInputRenderer.getConvertedValue(HtmlBasicInputRenderer.java:81)
     javax.faces.component.UIInput.getConvertedValue(UIInput.java:934)
     javax.faces.component.UIInput.validate(UIInput.java:860)That means the servlet is trying to resolve the value expression "bundle", which is not available. Actually, I even don't want it to do so, because only the value typed by user is necessary.
So I created a custom converter class to fix this problem:
public class EmptyConverter implements Converter
     public Object getAsObject( FacesContext context, UIComponent component, String value )
          return value.toString();
     public String getAsString( FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object value )
          return value.toString();
}and
<h:inputText id="search" value="#{bundle.search}" converter="EmptyConverter" onfocus= 'if (this.value=="#{bundle.search}") this.value=""' />Also don't forget to declare it in faces-config.xml
So my question:
- is this a jsf bug?
- is it possible to switch off the converter and validation for the particular component?
(immediate="true" only moves the validation to another lifecycle step!)
Thank you,
Artem

Since <loadBundle> loads resouce bundle in as a map, change your code as follows:
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