Maybe I'm misunderstanding the functionality of this component but I expect that all values in my Bean will be validated but this is not happening. Here is some sample code illustrating the behavior I'm seeing:

<h:form id="myForm">
  <rich:graphValidator value="#{testBean}" id="gv">
  <h:panelGrid columns="3">     
       <h:inputText value="#{testBean.str}"></h:inputText>    
       <h:inputText value="#{testBean.date1}" styleClass="datepicker"></h:inputText>
       <h:inputText value="#{testBean.date2}" styleClass="datepicker"></h:inputText>
  </h:panelGrid>
  <a4j:commandButton value="Submit" action="#{testBean.doAction}"/>
  </rich:graphValidator>
  </h:form>

@ManagedBean
@ViewScoped
public class TestBean implements Cloneable, Serializable{
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1952428504080910113L;


  private String str="";

  @Pattern(regexp="(^(0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](19|20)\\d\\d$)?", message="Invalid date")
  private String date1;

  @Pattern(regexp="(^(0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](19|20)\\d\\d$)?", message="Invalid date")
  private String date2;


  @AssertTrue(message = "Invalid value")
  public boolean isStrValid() {
  return str.length() == 9 || str.isEmpty();
  }

Assuming I enter invalid text in all 3 of the fields I've defined above I would expect to see 3 error messages, 2 for "Invalid date" and 1 for "Invalid value". This is not happening, instead I am seeing 2 "Invalid date" error messages. The only way I can get the "Invalid value" error message to show is by either leaving the 2 date fields blank or by entering valid values in the 2 date fields. If I enter an invalid value in either date field the "Invalid value" message will not show.

Does anyone know why this happens?