Prithvi Sehgal wrote:Hello Tim,
Can you describe the term binary updates? I am a little confused in this term.
Thanks,
All items on a web page are text. But that doesn't mean that the control value properties in a backing bean have to all be
String objects. You can define control value to reference an integer, floating-point, or Date object, for example. In the cases of integer and float, there are automatic converters that handle the job of taking the text from the page submission, converting it to binary (integer or float formats), and invoking the binary "set" methods such as "setField(int newValue)". In the case of Dates, you have to provide an explicit converter reference if you want to format your displayed date/time values in a format other than the default that the Date toString method uses.
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.