Define Global Format Masks
Many systems have a requirement to standardize various key presentation formats, such as dates or currency amounts. You would like a standard format mask to be easily changeable and available in one place so that a single change can affect the entire application.
Within ADF BC, we have seen how you can apply control hints to all usages of a particular entity object attribute. However, it would be better if the format mask were applied to every applicable field in the application, not just to those related to a single entity object.
If you examine one of the Salary fields in the TUHRA system, you will see something like the following definition:
<af:outputText value="#{bindings.Salary.inputValue}"> <f:convertNumber groupingUsed="false" ...
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