Use TreeModel and MenuModel without Faces-Config

Question

I need to create a menu based off of data from a database. This data is in an hierarchical format, so it needs to be loaded into the TreeModel. I'm able to load the TreeModel from the persisted data; however, I now need to take that data and format it into the MenuModel so that I can use the menu ADF components (i.e. I don't want to use the ADF tree component). All the examples that I've seen that use the MenuModel involve setting up the menu items in the faces-config (e.g. #{menuItem_GlobalLogout}), which I cannot use.
Is there a good example out there that shows how to load a MenuModel from a TreeModel without using the faces-config to setup the menu items?

Answer 1

Hi,
you should be able to adapt the sample to create your own menu model objects (nothing else is what the faces-config.xml version does. It just uses managed beans to have JSF instantiating the menu structure). So in your case you could use a table query to build and populate the query using Java objects similar to the provided sample.
There is no sample available that I am aware of that shows how to do it differently though I once used the ADF tree binding to build the menu items
Frank