Hello Everyone <br><br>Because I was running into this issue while programming a demo application, I ran into a spec errata and am not sure what the correct behavior is.<br><br>Spec 3.4.3.4 for f:event states<br><br>The <b>type</b> attribute specifies the type of event, and can be any of the specification-defined events or one of any userdefined<br>
events, but must be a ComponentSystemEvent, using either the short-hand name for the event or the fullyqualified<br>class name (e.g., com.foo.app.event.CustomEvent). If the event can not be found, a<br>FacesException listing the offending event type will be thrown. Please see the tlddocs for the &lt;f:event /&gt; tag<br>
for the normative specification of the declarative event feature.<br><br>Now if we look at the corresponding html documentation:<br>pdldocs/facelets/f/event.html<br><br><b>name</b> <code>javax.el.ValueExpression</code>
<br>(<i>must evaluate to </i><code>java.lang.String</code>) Name of the event for which to install a listener. The following table
lists the valid values for this attribute, and the corresponding event
type for which the listener action is registered. ... <br><br><div class="changed_added_2_0"> <p>In addition to these values, the fully qualified class name of any java class that extends <code>javax.faces.event.ComponentSystemEvent</code> may be used as the value of the &quot;type&quot; attribute</p>
 <p>Also, the <code>@javax.faces.event.NamedEvent</code> annotation may be attached to any java class that extends <code>javax.faces.event.ComponentSystemEvent</code>. This enables that event to be referenced from this attribute, as descibed in the javadocs for <code>@NamedEvent</code>.</p>
<p><br></p><p>so my final question regarding this, is the attribute type now name or type?</p><p><br></p><p>Werner</p><p><br></p> </div><br>