Utilizing JSF with BC4J or ADF

Question

I see a lot of stuff on JSF being published now on OTN. I am just wondering...all of the examples show interaction of the managed bean with the database through a DBUtils class. What would you (Oracle java developers) suggest how to integrate JSF, specifically a UIData component, with ADF. With BC4J, we would get an app module...and then a view object and use the view object to populate several arrays (each array representing a column). These arrays would be the "data model" for the UIData component. ADF (or BC4J) would maintain my data persistence and put-away...and JSF just displays the data. Any ideas here or best practices Oracle would recommend?

Answer 1

I've been able to get JSF working with the ADF bindings to some extent as described above, but am having trouble getting the BC4J range set to respond. i.e. clicking the next set/previous set buttons shows the same set of records. The buttons I'm trying to use are the same ones JDev creates with the JSTL tags - created by dragging from the data component palette.
<input type="submit" name="<c:out value='${bindings.Previous_Set.path}' />" value="Previous Set" <c:out value="${bindings.Previous_Set.enabledString}"/>/>
<input type="submit" name="<c:out value='${bindings.Next_Set.path}' />" value="Next Set" <c:out value="${bindings.Next_Set.enabledString}"/>/>
<h:data_table var="Row" value="#{bindings.CrCarshopStatusView1.rangeSet}" rows="5">
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:output_text value="CS"/>
</f:facet>
<h:output_text value="#{Row.currencyString}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:output_text value="#{bindings.CrCarshopStatusView1.labels.TrackingId}"/>
</f:facet>
<h:output_text value="#{Row.TrackingId}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:output_text value="#{bindings.CrCarshopStatusView1.labels.Carinit}"/>
</f:facet>
<h:input_text value="#{Row.Carinit}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:output_text value="#{bindings.CrCarshopStatusView1.labels.Carnum}"/>
</f:facet>
<h:input_text value="#{Row.Carnum}" size="6">
<f:validate_length minimum="6" />
</h:input_text>
</h:column>
</h:data_table>
I had thought that the JSF tags would just plug into the bindings and advance along with them, but that isn't happening. Can someone provide an example syntax for working with the bindings through JSF tags?
Any help out there would be appreciated. Thanks much.