Inject JSF Managed Bean

This tutorial show how to inject JSF Managed Bean into another JSF Managed bean. In JSF 2.0 there is a new @ManagedProperty annotation. This annotation is used for dependency injection. We can Inject a managed property into another managed bean.

Creating a JSF Backing Bean

We are defining a JSF managed bean that’ll be injected.

package com.memorynotfound;

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import java.io.Serializable;

@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class MessageBean implements Serializable {

    public String getMessage(String name){
        return "Hello, " + name;
    }

}

Inject JSF Managed Bean

We use the @ManagedProperty to inject a JSF managed bean. The setter method is important here. This setter method is used by the @ManagedProperty to inject the managed bean. If you don’t have a setter method, the dependency injection will not work.

package com.memorynotfound;

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedProperty;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import java.io.Serializable;

@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class UserBean implements Serializable {

    @ManagedProperty(value = "#{messageBean}")
    private MessageBean messageBean;

    public MessageBean getMessageBean() {
        return messageBean;
    }

    // setter must be present or managed property won't work
    public void setMessageBean(MessageBean messageBean) {
        this.messageBean = messageBean;
    }

}

References

• @ManagedProperty JavaDoc

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