posted 14 years ago
Google for Rick Hightower's "JSF for Nonbelievers" articles on the IBM Developerworks. Although it's a few years old now, it's still one of the best examples.
However, I think you're looking for something slightly different. Not quite sure what, however, since a dialog would pop up on the same page as its parent, not on a separate page (and PLEASE don't tell me you're planning to pop up a separate browse window!). The same table/detail paradigm applies, regardless.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.