Displaying a Message for a specific component using id

[mikeeprice]

Still learning and have looked a lot places for answer.

From some things I have read it looks like I should be able to display a message on a web page for a specific component using the id.

I saw this somewhere <h:message for="loginName"/> where loginName is the id of an h:inputText component.

Unfortunately, I can't find an example of any Java code for the action bean to go along with this.

I keep thinking I should be able to find something like

facesMessages.add("loginName", "User #{user.loginName} already exists") where loginName is the component id on the web page

but I can't. Any help would be appreciated.

I have studied the books, Core Java Server Faces, Beginning JBoss Seam, and JBoss Seam. Also the Java Server Faces and SEAM documentation, searched forums and searched with google. I have also looked at the source code for FacesMessages.java. This stuff is still pretty new to me though.

Thanks, Mike Price

[hstang]

facesMessage.addToControl(..)

[mikeeprice]

Thanks, that worked really well. Now that I know what to look for I will delve into the documentation some more.