During the JSF lifecycle each input value needs to be converted.
As such the JSF runtime allows you to write converters that
will take care of that during request processing.
Several standard converters are part of the standard JSF
runtime. Note that the specification has been written with
extension in mind so it is also possible to write your own
validator and hook it up for request processing.
The next blog entry in the series will describe the actual
Java API that will allow you to validate input values.
See you then!