Will Unified EL support method expressions with parameters? I saw it on the wish list http://blog.hibernate.org/Bloggers/EE6WishlistPartIIIUnifiedEL , any news?
I know JSR-299 isn't just for JSF and EJBs but that was the primary place I was interested in using it. The problem is that I don't design my method signatures of my EJBs the same way I design the methods in my backing beans so how can I use EJBs in place of JSF managed beans? Basically what I want is (see the action on the commandButton):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
<h:head>
<title>A simple example</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form>
<h:panelGrid columns="2" title="Test Form">
<h:outputLabel id="field1Label" for="field1" value="label1: " />
<h:inputText id="field1" value="#{requestScope.field1Value}"/>
<h:outputLabel id="field2Label" for="field2" value="label2: " />
<h:inputText id="field2" value="#{requestScope.field2Value}"/>
<h:commandButton value="Press Me" action="#{myBean.myMethod(requestScope.field1Value, requestScope.field2Value)}"/>
</h:panelGrid>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>I'm going to have to stay with-in the Java EE 6 specs so I can't use replacement EL implementations. Does JSR-299 do me any good in this scenario or am I still going to be using backing beans to delegate to EJBs? Most of my session beans are stateless so I need method arguments. Currently I'm using the latest promoted Glassfish v3 and I get a javax.el.MethodNotFoundException.
