Hi everyone,

I have a strange behavior with a picklist...i'm quite resign because i don't understand why this piece of code doesn't work. I certainly miss something...

So let me explain, i work with Seam 2.2.0.GA and all libs that are package with this version.Server is jboss 5.1

I am initializing the pickList in a EBJ when i load the page

pages.xml

<page view-id="/skill.xhtml" no-conversation-view-id="/home.xhtml">
 <action execute="#{skillAction.init()}" />
 <navigation>
 <rule if-outcome="updated">
 <redirect view-id="/user.xhtml" />
 </rule>
 </navigation>
</page>

SkillAction.java

public String init() {
 skills = skillDAO.findAuthorizedSkills(User.getId());
 skillsSelected = skillDAO.findSelectedSkin(User.getId());
 return "initialized";
}

public String save() {
 user.setSkills(skillsSelected);
 user = entityManager.merge(user);
 entityManager.flush();
 return "updated";
}

skill.xhtml

<rich:pickList id="skillPickList" value="#{skillAction.skillsSelected}">
 <s:selectItems value="#{skillAction.skills}" var="_skill" label="#{_skill.name}"/>
 <s:convertEntity/>
</rich:pickList>
...
<h:commandLink id="skillSave" action="#{skillAction.save()}" >
 <h:outputText value="Save"/>
</h:commandLink>

The thing is that it works perfectly the on the first launch...i can select or unselect items, the whole modification are put into the database.
But if i logout, or restart the server, my skills that are in the database are not display anymore in the pickList component. And when i log the size of the lists in the init method of the EJB skillAction, lists are with correct size everytime, but anything happened with the pickList component!

I have this in my component.xml in order to manager a converter
components.xml

<component name="org.jboss.seam.ui.entityConverter">
 <property name="entityManager">#{entityManager}</property>
</component>

and in Skill.java entity bean i have override equals method to get the comparaison on the id.


Where i am wrong? Why the richfaces component doesn't want my lists!? Do i have to write a specific converter?

Thx in advance.