[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Nested property best practice

Hello, I am experimenting with Seam's new Application Framework stuff (EnitityHome, etc.) in order to write as little code as possible for doing trivial things (CRUD, in particular). The question I have relates to editing a parent object and attributes of child objects from within the same form. Specifically, I have a "Person" class that contains an instance of an "EmailAddress" class as a property. The EmailAddress has a "locationAddress" propety that contains the actual address String. The EmailAddress will initially be null (which is a legitimate case). I want to use a single "Person" editing form for capturing the Person's simple propeties and a simple text input in that for for the email address. The problem I am looking for advice on is how to deal with intelligently instantiating an EmailAddress when a user enters a string. Since the the emailAddress property of the Person instance is initially null, JSF binding fails when a user enters an email address in the form. (the binding expression for the email inputText is #{myperson.emailAddress.locationAddress}). Does anyone have any clean solutions for automagically instantiating an EmailAddress instance and binding it to the Person's emailAddress property prior to binding the provided emailAddress string to it? I realize I could add properties and logic to my Home class to deal with this, or provide delegate transient properties on my Person class, but I am hoping to avoid this, since this is a pretty common situation and I would like as clean a solution as possible. This is not specific to Seam, or the App Framework, or JSF for that matter, but I am hoping someone has some thoughts on it.... Thanks, Shea. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4001891#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...