[jsr-314-open] cc.parent mystery

I can't get cc.parent to work, and I stared at it for long enough that I am pretty convinced that it is a bug. (https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1529) What I am wondering in this forum is whether cc.parent is actually intended to be supported. There was some use case in the olden days, when cc was dynamically scoped, but around September 15, Andy Schwarz convinced you all that it should be statically scoped. For all I know, that took away the raison d'être for cc.parent. Or is there another use case? I only found one other example, David Geary's developerWorks article (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu2/index.html). He has a map component inside a place component that retrieves the location from the parent. I am not even sure that's good practice. It doesn't make the map component reusable, but instead couples it with the parent. Thanks, Cay -- Cay S. Horstmann | http://horstmann.com | mailto:cay@horstmann.com