Value binding doesn't invoke functions in dataTable

Question

I have been fighting with this problem for few days now...
It seems like value="#{bean.items}" isn't invoked. Just because it isn't. I am not getting any errors, exception, nothing.
Code looks just like that:
<h:dataTable id="ingredientsTableForPharmacyKind"  value="#{drughandler.drug.ingredientsList}" var="ingredient">
                    <%-- NAME --%>                   
                    <h:column>
                        <f:facet name="header">
                            <h:outputText id="ingredientNamePrompt" value="#{msgs.menuDrugFormIngredientNAME}"/>
                        </f:facet>
                        <h:outputText id="ingredientNameOutput" value="#{ingredient.ingredient_name}"/>
                    </h:column>
                    <%-- QUANTITY --%>
                    <h:column>
                        <f:facet name="header">
                            <h:outputText id="ingredientQuantityPrompt" value="#{msgs.menuDrugFormIngredientQUANTITY}"/>
                        </f:facet>
                        <h:outputText id="ingredientQuantityOutput" value="#{ingredient.quantity}"/>
                    </h:column>
                    <%-- UNIT --%>
                    <h:column>
                        <f:facet name="header">
                            <h:outputText id="ingredientUnitPrompt" value="#{msgs.menuDrugFormUnit}"/>
                        </f:facet>
                        <h:outputText id="ingredientUnitOutput" value="#{ingredient.unit.name}"/>
                    </h:column>
                    <%-- DESCRIPTION --%>
                    <h:column>
                        <f:facet name="header">
                            <h:outputText id="ingredientDescriptionPrompt" value="#{msgs.menuDrugFormIngredientDESC}"/>
                        </f:facet>
                        <h:outputText id="ingredientDescriptionOutput" value="#{ingredient.description}"/>
                    </h:column>
                    <%-- EFFECT --%>
                    <h:column>
                        <f:facet name="header">
                            <h:outputText id="ingredientEffectPrompt" value="#{msgs.menuDrugFormIngredientEFFECT}"/>
                        </f:facet>
                        <h:outputText id="ingredientEffectOutput" value="#{ingredient.effect}"/>
                    </h:column>
                </h:dataTable>
drughandler bean contains attribute drug, which is a bean. DrugBean method ingredientsList returns LinkedList of ingredients.
Problem is that everything is rendered except values from ingredientList ( I have second funciton which returns an Array of ingredients, it doesn't work either). Facets are rendered correctly. There is one but. value="#{drughandler.drug.ingredientsList}" Is never invoked. I have even put System.out.println(); into that function to check if its invoked, nothing was shown on the console...
What is wrong?? Everything on this specific page works fine....

Answer 1

My bad, I got a little foggy. Ofcourse each bean has getter and setter methods. DrugBeans getIngredientsList and getIngredientsArray of DrugHandler bean methods aren't invoked in this particular code snippet.
I have also noticed smoething like this in the AS console
WARNING: [ComponentRule]{faces-config/component} Merge(com.mycompany.TabLabel)
2005-12-01 07:48:12 com.sun.faces.config.rules.ComponentRule end
WARNING: [ComponentRule]{faces-config/component} Merge(com.mycompany.Tree)
2005-12-01 07:48:12 com.sun.faces.config.rules.ValidatorRule end
WARNING: [ValidatorRule]{faces-config/validator} Merge(com.mycompany.jsf.validator.LATER_THAN)
I think it's present when code regarding dataTable is uncommented.