I have started working with richfaces:pickList and really struggling how to use it.

how to get pickList.getValue(); this is of type java.util.Arrays$ArrayList. Kindly help.

You can ask me why are you trying to access through listener its already available by model update. The case is I want to sort the target values as they are added.

<rich:pickList id="brandPickList" 
      value="#{advDocFilterMgr.brandTargLst}"
      moveControlsVerticalAlign="middle" 
      valueChangeListener="#{advDocFilterMgr.handlePickListChange}">

      <f:selectItems value="#{advDocFilterMgr.brandSrcSet}"/>
      <a4j:support event="onlistchanged" actioneventsQueue="mainQueue"  reRender="brandPickList"/>
 </rich:pickList>            

    public void handlePickListChange(ValueChangeEvent changeEvent){
           HtmlPickList pickList = (HtmlPickList)changeEvent.getSource();

           String pickListId = pickList.getId();


           if ("brandPickList".equals(pickListId))
           {
               System.out.println(pickList.getValue() instanceof ArrayList);
               System.out.println(pickList.getValue() instanceof Array);

                    how to get pickList.getValue(); this is of type java.util.Arrays$ArrayList
                }

       }

I had a work around for this. I gave up using valueChangeListener.

inteadI introduced <a4j:support action=".." />  through which I couldaccess updated taget list and sort it. reRender does the refresh part.

Message was edited by: Srinivasan Thoyyeti