"CptnKirk" wrote : | For example I don't think I'd recommend using a Home to populate a search prototype. For search pages, an entity with an event scoped role combined with Hibernate's Criteria API + Example criterion is great. | I prefer exactly the opposite, with a Search conversation scoped component that holds my prototype entity during the search conversation. Gives me a lot of control over what the user can select on the search screen and how I handle this in the backend: | @Name("userSearch") | @Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION) | public class UserSearch implements Serializable { | | @In | private UserDAO userDAO; | | @In | private FacesMessages facesMessages; | | private User exampleUser; | private String orderByProperty; | private boolean orderDescending; | private String[] ignoreProperties; | private int rowCount; | private int maxPageSize; | private int pageSize; | private int page; | | @DataModel | private List<User> usersList; | | @Create | public void initialize() { | pageSize = 15; | maxPageSize = 1000; | exampleUser = new User(); | orderByProperty = "username"; | orderDescending = false; | ignoreProperties = new String[]{"passwordHash", "activated", "createdOn"}; | } | | public void find() { | page = 0; | queryRowCount(); | if (rowCount != 0) queryUsers(); | } | | public void nextPage() { | page++; | queryUsers(); | } | | public void previousPage() { | page--; | queryUsers(); | } | | public void firstPage() { | page = 0; | queryUsers(); | } | | public void lastPage() { | page = (rowCount / pageSize); | if (rowCount % pageSize == 0) page--; | queryUsers(); | } | | private void queryRowCount() { | rowCount = userDAO.getRowCountByExample(exampleUser, ignoreProperties); | if (rowCount == 0) { | facesMessages.addFromResourceBundleOrDefault( | FacesMessage.SEVERITY_INFO, | "noUserFound", | "No user with given attributes was found, please try again." | ); | } | } | | private void queryUsers() { | usersList = userDAO.findByExample(exampleUser, orderByProperty, orderDescending, page * pageSize, pageSize, ignoreProperties); | } | | public boolean isNextPageAvailable() { | return usersList != null && rowCount > ((page * pageSize) + pageSize); | } | | public boolean isPreviousPageAvailable() { | return usersList != null && page > 0; | } | public int getPageSize() { | return pageSize; | } | | public void setPageSize(int pageSize) { | this.pageSize = pageSize > maxPageSize ? maxPageSize : pageSize; // Prevent tampering | } | | public int getRowCount() { | return rowCount; | } | | public User getExampleUser() { | return exampleUser; | } | | public void setExampleUser(User exampleUser) { | this.exampleUser = exampleUser; | } | | public String getOrderByProperty() { | return orderByProperty; | } | | public boolean isOrderDescending() { | return orderDescending; | } | | public void sortBy(String propertyName) { | orderByProperty = propertyName; | orderDescending = !isOrderDescending(); // Switch between ASC and DESC | page = 0; // Reset to first page | queryUsers(); | } | | } | And the UI is bound to userSearch.exampleUser and the various other properties and methods for pagination etc. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4039586#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...