Validator in comboBox with onblur event

[rougorsky]

Dear all

Please study the following comboBox in my jsf:

<rich:comboBox id="cities" >
                 <f:selectItems value="#{myBean.cities}"  />
                <f:validator validatorId="myValidator" />
                <rich:ajaxValidator event="onblur"   />
</rich:comboBox>

The validator "myValidator" should do some validating when the  onblur event is called. It works, at least when I select an  entry from the list
and leave the combobox. However when I click into the  combobox, not selecting anything and then leave the combox the onblur event
seems not to be fired: the validator method doesn't run. The  same thing happens when I vist and leave the combox with tab-key.
Anyone has an idea why that is an what I could do? Thanks for your help.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

please try the latest version of RF. In general it's a problem of JSF it's not validates the null values - only do that if required specified but if required false - not. So we implemented wrapper classes for almost all inputs.. I guess comboBox should works too in latest version. JSF itself adresses this problem only in 2.0 version by providing application context param.