In JSF2, how to know if composite component has children?

Question

I\'m writing a composite component, you have a special tag named:

Which inserts all the component\'s chi

Answer 1

At least on Mojarra this does not work. A composite component's children get inserted just fine but accessing #{cc.parent} or #{cc.children} does not work on 2.0.2, and #{cc.childCount} always returns 0 on 2.0.4, regardless of the number of children.