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[ JDK VERSION : 1.6.0_02 ] I think it would be time saving for programming with JSF if we can have a wizard to create a dataprovider out of an entity bean. That way, it will be easier to bind a DataProvider with a visual component at design time. The created dataprovider can be empty with the following constructor: /** Creates a new instance of membersDataProvider */ public membersDataProvider() { // dummy data for design time membersList.add(new Members()); // Wrap the list setList(membersList); } That way when we finish designing the page in the visual designer we can go back to the code of the data provider and add all the necessary methods. Best Regards, Rachad
Additional Explanation: Having a JSF application and working with JPA as our data backend. While injecting the entity beans to the visual web component, we have to create a data provider class for the entity bean we need to inject, that data provider class usually extends the "ObjectListDataProvider" class. And then we bind the "Table"(for instance) in the visual web to that Data Provider. So it would be practical to have the possibility to create on design time that DataProvider class. to be able to bind it to our visual componet. Please look at this example, where Members is the entity bean, and MembersDataProvider is the needed Data Provider: public class MembersDataProvider extends ObjectListDataProvider{ private List membersList = new ArrayList(); /** Creates a new instance of MembersDataProviderr */ public MembersDataProvider() { // Dummy data for design time membersList.add(new Members()); // Wrap the list setList(membersList); } }
no resources to implement for 6.x