Validation by java

Question

<af:column>
<af:inputText required="true" validator="#{Class7.check}" id="krik2" value="#{Class7.krikor}" >
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
<af:column>
<af:inputText required="true" >
</af:inputText>
</af:column>
public void check(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uiComponent, Object newValue)
String krikor = newValue.toString();
if ( krikor.equals("belowcolumn")
FacesMessage message = new FacesMessage();
message.setSummary("they cant be equal.");
throw new ValidatorException(message);
How Cn I in check method, get the value of the other column so that i compare them>???

Answer 1

Please provide a propper use case and jdev version you are using.
Are us using adf rich faces?
You can traverse the component tree to get the component 'below' (what ever that mean). But this would depend on the layout of the page. So this is not the way I would go. Give the input text you want to check against an id, find the component with this id in the component tree get the value of the component and do the comparison.
If you bind the input text 'below' to a backing bean you don't even have to ssearch for the component in the tree.
Timo