restoreAttachedState and saveAttachedState


Radhesh
If you had come across a situation where you wanted to restore state of a non-primitive member variable, and found that it was not working, here is the solution:
public void restoreState(FacesContext context, Object state) {
  Object[] values = (Object[]) state;
  super.restoreState(context, values[0]);

  //Don' do this; it will fail on you!!!
  //listenerPointers = (Map<String, ArrayList<Class<? extends ActionListener>>>) values[1];

  //This will work!!!
  listenerPointers = (Map<String, ArrayList<Class<? extends ActionListener>>>) restoreAttachedState(context,values[1]);
}
Notice the call to restoreAttachedState(facesContext, value).

"saveAttachedState(facesContext, value) is the saveState() counter-part.

Both are static methods in UIComponentBase class.
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RichFaces - selfRendered a4j:Region


Radhesh
For the selfRendered <a4j:region> to work properly, all the components embedded inside it should be UIComponents. In other words, if any html elements are part of the a4j:region, these elements are considered "transient" by the Richfaces framework and hence are lost-in-transit on post-back. If you have "div" tags, change them to t:divs (from Apache Tomahawk Library) or "span" to "h:outptText".
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