How to display my application's errors in JSF?

Question

In my JSF/Facelets app, here\'s a simplified version of part of my form:

Answer 1

I tried this as a best guess, but no luck:

It looks right to me. Have you tried setting a message severity explicitly? Also I believe the ID needs to be the same as that of a component (i.e., you'd need to use newPassword1 or newPassword2, if those are your IDs, and not newPassword as you had in the example).

FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage("newPassword1", 
                    new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, "Error Message"));

Then use <h:message for="newPassword1" /> to display the error message on the JSF page.

Answer 2

JSF is a beast. I may be missing something, but I used to solve similar problems by saving the desired message to a property of the bean, and then displaying the property via an outputText:

<h:outputText
    value="#{CreateNewPasswordBean.errorMessage}"
    render="#{CreateNewPasswordBean.errorMessage != null}" />