Blog of Daniel Murygin

Last week i noticed that you can easily inject one managed bean into another in your JSF configuration file faces-config.xml. Even if this not new to all of you i will write some configuration details.

The following code injects an instance of managed bean edit into an instance of bean task. Value #{edit} is referencing the managed-bean-name edit.

<faces-config>
   ..
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>task</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>sernet.verinice.web.TaskBean</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>editBean</property-name>
            <property-class>sernet.verinice.web.EditBean</property-class>
            <value>#{edit}</value>
        </managed-property>
    </managed-bean>
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>edit</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>sernet.verinice.web.EditBean</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
   ..
</faces-config>

Class TaskBean needs a public getter and setter for EditBean:

public class TaskBean {

    private EditBean editBean;
    
    public EditBean getEditBean() {
        return editBean;
    }

    public void setEditBean(EditBean editBean) {
        this.editBean = editBean;
    }
}

The web container creates instances of TaskBean and EditBean for every user session. Without any “clue code” the EditBean is set to the TaskBean instance by the container .