Use dpendent dropdowns in dataTable

The problem is how to populate/refresh the item list of a dropdown menu in a row af a dataTable according to the changes of an other component in the same row.
As an example consider the case when the rows of the table corresppond to Project entities, and for each project we can assign a departement and a project leader among the employees of the selected departement. NOw if the user select a departement for a project then the dorpdown for project leader should be populated with the employees of the selected departement.
I had two ideas but unfortunately none of them works. The first one is to generate the list of SelectItems in the Project entity (not a good programming practice). That is
<f:selectItems value="#{project.projectLeaderSelect}">so in the getProjectLeaderSelect() method of the entity we have information about the selected project leader.
The problem of this solution that the JSF framework does not allows us to bind input elements to none managed bean properties. I got exception - I suspect that was the reason.
The other way would be to send request parameters when populating dropdowns, but unfortunately getters are called several times, and the sent request parameters may be not living at any call.
At the end I solved the problem a bit strange way. I generated a prepopulated project leader dropdown for each possible departement, and rendered only one according to the present value of the departement attribute of the project. Of course, it is not a general enough way but for our problem was working, the possible values of both dropdowns were static.
I am still looking for a better solution.

Hi,
Please go through the sample application AppModel which is available at:
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/codesamples/sampleapps.html
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
RK.

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