JSF Backing Bean

[Mike Housey]

I am converting from struts to jsf and have a seious issue initializing backing beans for a page.

I want to pre-fill a backing bean and then display its values on a jsf form.

The followig code does not work as it creates a new bean when it encounters the jsf tag:

<%
form.Site site = new form.Site();
site.setSiteName("test");
%>

<f:view>
<h:form>
<h:inputText binding="#{site.siteName}"></h:inputText>
</h:form>
</f:view>


How does one initialze the baking bean ? With struts, I simply created the bean and stuck it in the session.

You help in this matter would be greatly appriciated.

[Nathan Pruett]

Moving to the Web Application Frameworks forum.

[Florian Fogl]

Hi there,

just stick it in the faces-config.xml in your WEB-INF folder and iniatilize it with the appropriate values and scope.

<managed-bean>
<description>
The "backing file" bean that backs up the guessNumber webapp
</description>
<managed-bean-name>site</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>form.Site</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
<managed-property>
<property-name>siteName</property-name>
<property-class>String</property-class>
<value>0</value>
</managed-property>

Then write in your JSF file:

<f:view>
<h:form>
<h:inputText binding="#{site.siteName}"></h:inputText>
</h:form>
</f:view>

That's it!

Florian