At this moment I have a Calendar working in the following manner
<a4j:outputPanel id="calendar" layout="block">
<rich:calendar
id="Date"
popup="true"
datePattern="MMM d, yyyy"
value="#{calendarBean.date}"
valueChangeListener="#{calendarBean.selectDate}">
<a4j:support event="ondateselected"/>
</rich:calendar>
</a4j:outputPanel>
The backing bean constist of a private date variable with getters and setters and
public void selectDate(ValueChangeEvent event) {
Date newDate = (Date) event.getNewValue();
if (newDate != null) {
setDate(newDate);
}
}
The good news it works. The bad news this is not consistent with the general architecture of our project.
I would like to get rid of the backing bean and write directly to the domain object.
The problem is in the javax.faces.event.ValueChangeEvent. Naturally I don't want the domain layer to know about jsf.
Is it possibel to set the date without resorting to javax.faces.event.ValueChangeEvent?
It is kind of sad that I need the backing bean only for converting the event to a date.
Thanks
