Writing a custom component with multiple fields.

Question

Does anyone have some pointers on writing a custom component that properly handles multiple input fields?
An example usage might be as follows:
Assume the following java classes:
public interface Address {
    //... getters/setters for Address.
public class Company{
    Address getAddress(){...};
}The tag usage might be something like the following:
<custom:address value="#{myCompanyBean.address}" />
Extending UIComponentBase I can easily render the output and create all the needed input elements. I'm also able to properly retrieve the submitted values in the decode method. But I'm unsure how to handle the "UpdateModelValues" step. Do I simply over-ride processUpdates, or is there more housekeeping to be done?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm guessing that doing addChild inside createChildren causes an infinite loop.
Why aren't you just doing this with MXML?  it would be a lot simpler.