ui:repeat with rich:menuItems?

[ericjava.eric.chiralsoftware.net]

I'm trying to have a menu that displays the ten most recent news items like this:

<rich:dropDownMenu submitMode="none" value="Recent news">
  <ui:repeat value="#{newsQuery.recentItems}"
                       var="newsItem">
     <rich:menuItem>
        <h:outputText value="#{newsItem.title}"/>
     </rich:menuItem>
   </ui:repeat>
</rich:dropDownMenu>

Except that that doesn't work; the news items never get added to the drop-down.

Any ideas on what could be blocking this?

Thanks

[matt.drees]

Look into using c:forEach instead of ui:repeat

[ericjava.eric.chiralsoftware.net]

Thanks for the suggestion.  Totally weird, I'm now getting:

Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at com.sun.facelets.tag.jstl.core.ForEachHandler.apply(ForEachHandler.java:123)
        at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler.applyNextHandler(ComponentHandler.java:314)

This is with RF 3.2.0 SR1.  And I'm sure there's only one item there and it's a very simple EJB3 query with a simple table structure.  I'll try this out with RF 3.1.5 to see if there's any difference on that.

[ericjava.eric.chiralsoftware.net]

I just checked it with RF 3.1.5 and same result: out of memory error.  Really strange.

[ericjava.eric.chiralsoftware.net]

Ok, cool, now I have it working.  I'm not sure what was causing the OutOfMemoryError, but I simplified the page (removed everything else) and then it works.  Now I'll put the page back together to find out what interaction is causing this OutOfMemoryError.  It's probably something I can fix.

[benmoore]

Did you figure it out? I have the same problem.

[jspring]

I think this is because the forEach tag is missing an items attribute.