The Managed Bean in the faces-config.xml File

[Daniel Gee]

I am still very new to JSF. I am confused about the managed bean.

For example, I have a button in my web page. A click on this button invokes an action; say, ListAction.java.

In this ListAction class, I instantiate a business delegate; say, ListPersonnel.java and call a method in this business delegate to return an ArrayList: personnel. Of course, this business delegate goes through facade, DAO, etc. to populate the ArrayList. This ArrayList is a collecation of a JavaBean called PersonnelBean that gets and sets a number of personnel information; such as ssn, name, etc.

Upon this ArrayList is successfully populated and received by the ListAction class, I am going to display a web page with a table. In JSF, it is <h ataTable ...>.

My questions are regarding the managed bean in the faces-config.xml file.

1. Which one is my <managed-bean-class>? packageName.ListAction? or packageName.PersonnelBean? or something else?

2. What should be my <managed-bean-name>? I guess that I can give a name I like. Is it right? What about xyz?

3. Then, how do I specify the "value" attribute of my <h ataTable ...> tag when I display a web page to show the data table? Is it correct to specify value="#{xyz.personnel}"? What is the correct specification if it is wrong?

4. I guess that I can give any name to the "var" attribute in the <h ataTable ...> tag. Is it right?

[Kevin Galligan]

1. Which one is my <managed-bean-class>? packageName.ListAction? or packageName.PersonnelBean? or something else?
ListAction

2. What should be my <managed-bean-name>? I guess that I can give a name I like. Is it right? What about xyz?
listAction, or anything else you'd like (that is a valid name)

3. Then, how do I specify the "value" attribute of my <h ataTable ...> tag when I display a web page to show the data table? Is it correct to specify value="#{xyz.personnel}"? What is the correct specification if it is wrong?
value="#{listAction.personnel}" This would call the function 'getPersonnel' that would return your List object

4. I guess that I can give any name to the "var" attribute in the <h ataTable ...> tag. Is it right?
Any valid name