Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I have this on Form1:

<h:selectOneMenu id="page" binding="#{pageList.selectedPage}"
    valueChangeListener="#{pageList.changePage}" onchange="pageChanged()">
    <f:selectItems value="#{pageList.selectPages}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:commandButton id="btnSubmit" value="#{msg.BTN_SEARCH_LABEL}" action="#{MyBean1.submit}"

The changePage() method is:

public void changePage(ValueChangeEvent event)
{
   String value = (String) event.getNewValue();
   this.setSelectedPage(value);
   FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().renderResponse();
} 

The pageChanged() event is JavaScript triggering the onclick event of the submit button (of course, I can also use onchange="submit()" - I won't go in detail here why I'm not using it):

function pageChanged() {
	document.getElementById("Form1:btnSubmit").click();
}

And the submit method of Form1 I tried to get the value of the new selected page:

Object bean1 = FacesUtil.getRequestMap("pageList");
selectedPage = ((PageListing) bean1).getSelectedPage();

The above codes do not return the new selected page value from the h:selectOneMenu - instead, it returns the previous page value. I'm a bit vague around the valueChangeListener method. Can someone enlighten me?

Edited by: icepax on 5/12/2009 17:21