Jsp and jspx and scriplets - Hiding buttons based on J2EE security roles

Question

Hello:
I have security a scoped managed bean with methods is Technician(), isUser() etc. In the jsp world, it was very easy to inspect these methods in the jsp via scriplets and show/hide buttons/links etc. I am just curious. Or, is rendering via EL expression the way to go?
(1) In the jspx world (SRList.jspx in my case), is there an easy way to inspect these managed bean methods and use scriplets to access them and show/hide buttons.
In the jsp world, I would have written something like
if (SecurityInfo.isTechnician()
{ %>
<Button>
<% } %>
There would be an import statement to have access to SecurityInfo class in jsp world. I know something is out there in the ADFBC/jspx world. Please advice? If you know of any urls, please let me know.
(2) Is there a way to grant read/write access to individual pages in my app? I can hide/view buttons based on roles but can't grant update/view access to individual fields on my pages. I know I have to wait for JDEV 11 release to grant permissions via pagedef/iterator as is done in file based security.. Any other solution till then?
Thanks

Answer 1

hi useradfbc
about (1), you could try something like this
<af:commandButton text="my button for managers" rendered="#{userInfo.manager}"/>(tip : You can use "Your Control Panel" to make your name visible in forum posts.)
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Jan Vervecken