af converter does not work with managed bean attribute

If you have a UI component ,  for example output text ,binned  managed bean attribute  and you want to format the output of this attribute in a decimal format for example, then you have to do this within the managed bean it self.

Example:

if you have an  output text that its value is a managed bean attribute  and you insert inside this output text a converter to convert the output to decimal format ,this will not work.

so the solution is to format the value within the managed bean class , like this

    public void setPaidAmountBase(String paidAmountBase) {
        this.paidAmountBase = paidAmountBase;
    }

    public String getPaidAmountBase() {
        DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("##,###.000");      
        System.out.println(df.format(new BigDecimal(paidAmountBase==null?"0":paidAmountBase)));
        return df.format(new BigDecimal(paidAmountBase==null?"0":paidAmountBase));
   }