I figured it out.

 

I used Karsten's JSFUtils to get the UI Component like this:

 

import javax.faces.component.UIComponent; 

 

But I got the UIComponent, there was no get Value for get Submitted value. Thats because UIComponent is a base class.  

The class we need it the UIInput class.  Now the code looks like this: 

 

import javax.faces.component.UIInput; 

UIInput comp = (UIInput) JSFUtil.findComponent("inputText1"); 

 

Now, you can use comp.getValue() to get the current value of the field. 

 

I'll be using this a great deal in validators where I need to know the current value of one field to validate the current field.  

 

-- Jeff 

 

Karsten's JSFUtils are found here: 

http://www.mindoo.com/web/blog.nsf/dx/18.07.2009191738KLENAL.htm?opendocument&comments#anc1