In a jsp i use a jsf EL expression like this :

#{Employee.Department.Name}

In the database the n:1 relation between Employee and Department tables is not mandatory so previous EL expression can raise a null pointer exception because Employee.Department can be null.

This is a very frequent situation so i belive there must be a "standard" approch to solve this problem. My current solution is like this one :



but actually i think this is a bad solution.
Is there a more elegant way to solve this problem ?

TIA

s7

Really no one in this forum with the same problem or with a different solution ?

ssette