JSF : Better way to check for existence of

Question

I have a form in which validation error message needs to be displayed below the input elements. The error needs to be highlighted by showing an error bubble around the error mes

Answer 1

Iterator pkit = fctxt.getMessages(); // check all existing messages from the FacesContext         
while(pkit.hasNext()){ 
    System.out.println(pkit.next().getDetail()); // get message text
    System.out.println(pkit.next().getSummary());
}

If the message you are looking for is found in the while loop, you can take appropriate action