Jboss 4.0.5
seam 1.2 patch1
postgres
blah, blah, blah

i recently had what i believe to be a strange occurrence while writing a very simple app.

pay attention to destaddress property of Formmail...

@Entity
@Table(name = "formmail")
@Name("formmail")
public class Formmail implements Serializable {

 /**
 *
 */
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
 /**
 *
 */

 private String form;
 private String destaddress;


 @Id
 @NotNull
 @Length(max = 10)
 @Column(name="form")
 public String getForm() {
 return this.form;
 }

 public void setForm(String form) {
 this.form = form;
 }

 @Length(max = 80)
 @Column(name="destaddress")
 public String getDestAddress() {
 return this.destaddress;
 }

 public void setDestAddress(String destaddress) {
 this.destaddress = destaddress;
 }

 @Override
 public String toString()
 {
 return "Formmail(" + form + "," + destaddress + ")";
 }
}


****************

import javax.ejb.Local;
@Local
public interface FormmailSearch {

 public int getPageSize();
 public void setPageSize(int pageSize);

 public String getSearchString();
 public void setSearchString(String searchString);

 public String getSearchPattern();

 public void find();
 public void nextPage();
 public boolean isNextPageAvailable();

 public void destroy();

 }







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//
@Stateful
@Name("formmailSearch")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
@Restrict("#{identity.loggedIn}")
public class FormmailSearchAction implements FormmailSearch
{

 @PersistenceContext
 private EntityManager em;


 private String searchString;
 private int pageSize = 10;
 private int page;

 @DataModel
 private List<Formmail> formmails;

 public void find()
 {
 page = 0;
 queryFormmails();
 }
 public void nextPage()
 {
 page++;
 queryFormmails();
 }

 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
private void queryFormmails()
 {
 formmails = em.createQuery("select f from Formmail f where lower(f.form) like #{pattern}")
 .setMaxResults(pageSize)
 .setFirstResult( page * pageSize )
 .getResultList();
 }


 public boolean isNextPageAvailable()
 {
 return formmails!=null && formmails.size()==pageSize;
 }

 public int getPageSize() {
 return pageSize;
 }

 public void setPageSize(int pageSize) {
 this.pageSize = pageSize;
 }

 @Factory(value="pattern", scope=ScopeType.EVENT)
 public String getSearchPattern()
 {
 return searchString==null ?
 "%" : '%' + searchString.toLowerCase().replace('*', '%') + '%';
 }

 public String getSearchString()
 {
 return searchString;
 }

 public void setSearchString(String searchString)
 {
 this.searchString = searchString;
 }

 @Destroy @Remove
 public void destroy() {}


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<a:outputPanel id="searchResults">
 <div class="section">
 <h:outputText value="No Entrys Like That Found" rendered="#{formmails != null and formmails.rowCount==0}"/>

 <h:dataTable id="formmails" value="#{formmails}" var="mail" rendered="#{formmails.rowCount>0}">

 <h:column>
 <f:facet name="header">Form:</f:facet>
 #{mail.form}
 </h:column>

 <h:column>
 <f:facet name="header">Destination Address</f:facet>
 #{mail.destaddress}
 </h:column>

 <h:column>
 <s:link id="viewFormmail" value="View Record" action="#{formmailPersist.selectFormmail(mail)}"/>
 </h:column>
 </h:dataTable>


 <s:link value="More results" action="#{formmailSearch.nextPage}" rendered="#{formmailSearch.nextPageAvailable}"/>
 </div>
</a:outputPanel>

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this gave me a error
Exception during request processing: javax.servlet.ServletException: /FormmailList.xhtml: Bean: com.foo.Formmail, property: destaddress
......
after banging my head against the table for a while,, i figured out that Seam had changed the property name from destaddress to destAddress.

WHY??

I went back and change the name of the column in my db,, then alter my code a little... none of the weird junk,,, just with destaddress-->destAddress.

explanation anyone???

what don't i understand??
i mean randomly mapping characters in a variable name string to upper case makes the mapping a little difficult if you catch my drift.