Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I have not been able to understand the concept of a checkbox to mark a table row for selection using Java server faces. I am from the PHP world which this is easy.

<INPUT TYPE=checkbox NAME="doc[]" value=".....">


I get a array of the checkbox values. in a variable $doc

When I use the following

<h:dataTable id="t" value="#{dbquery.getopentournaments}" var="tournament">
<h:column>
<h:selectManyCheckbox value="#{dbquery.tournament}" id="cbox">
<f:selectItem itemValue="#{tournament.eventid}"/>
</h:selectManyCheckbox>
</h:column>

where dbquery.getopentournaments returns a CachedRowSetImpl from a database query

dbquery.tournament is a String Array

I believe that the object dbquery.tournament should contain the array of values checked from selectItem populated by #{tournament.eventid}

but I don't think this works.

I have seen other information on how to select rows for deletion but the explanation assumes I know something about java & JSF. I am try to learn common processes that all web applications require using JSF using a IDE while learning JSF without try to code JAVA.

eg

the following

<h:form id="mailbox">
<h:data_table value="#{mailsForm.mails}" var="mailBean">
<h:column>
<f:facet>
<h:output_text value="Selected"/>
</f:facet>
<h:selectboolean_checkbox id="selected" value="#{mailBean.selected}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet>
<h:output_text value="From"/>
</f:facet>
<h:output_text id="from" value="#{mailBean.from}"/>
</h:column>
...
</h:data_table>
<h:command_button id="delete" action="#{mybean.delete}"/>
</h:form>


but the javabean code is missing and an explation why mailBean.selected is reference as the value for <h:selectboolean_checkbox id="selected"

This last example seems to be a common method but a verbose complete explanation is missing with all code required to make this work.
Thanks if you can provide some direction.