Re: What's the latest thinking of the best two or threewebdevelopment languages/environ...

I wrote all my JSF manually without using a GUI. Somehow my way of

working does not fit into the world of GUI-designers.

That's how I write mine also. I had a creative developer put together a
single page that looks nice and I just copy and paste to get a new page :-)

I ended up simply saying that there was a rule for each page with a

wildcard for "came-from" with the same name as the page. Then you can just
say "success.jsp" and you go there.

Ah! I didn't know you could do that! Thanks for the tip.

What is it you need to do? Can the rendered attribute do that?

It was a case where the user had the option to display a list of documents
to order or order a catalog. Each would produce a large listing and had
multiple dataTables embedded within one another. In the end, for whatever
reason, the rendered boolean approach didn't work. I think it may have had
to do with the fact that I didn't want to introduce a whole bunch of
verbatim tags because it was wrappering more than just JSF tags. Will have
to look into the facelets more as you suggested.

Thanks for your response,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com