Using the Standard Converters

The JavaServer Faces implementation provides a set of Converter implementations that you can use to convert component data. For more information on the conceptual details of the conversion model, see Conversion Model (page 651).

The standard Converter implementations, located in the javax.faces.convert package, are as follows:

  • BigDecimalConverter

  • BigIntegerConverter

  • BooleanConverter

  • ByteConverter

  • CharacterConverter

  • DateTimeConverter

  • DoubleConverter

  • FloatConverter

  • IntegerConverter

  • LongConverter

  • NumberConverter

  • ShortConverter

Two of these standard converters (DateTimeConverter and NumberConverter) have their own tags, which allow you to configure the format of the component data by configuring the tag attributes. Using DateTimeConverter ...

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