Communication between multiple faces-config.xml

[ved gunjan]

hi,
i'm new to jsf, and currently working on a project where we have multiple web projects..i.e multiple war and the scenarioa is how do we communicate between managed bean present in different faces-config files...i.e communication between multiple war's.

any suggestion will be appreciated.
thnx
ved

[g madhava]

What App server are you using ? Which version of JSF are you using ?

[Adeel Ansari]

I guess its not just about the JSF. It highly depends upon the application server you are using. I would recommend server docs.

[ved gunjan]

thnx for the reply.
im using JBoss4.04.
wht my concern was if i could give an analogy to my problem is...if struts we have this struts-config file and we can have more that one such file....so to call action present in other config file we have SwitchAction.
Similarly if i have two faces-config file how we will reference the managed bean present present in second faces-config file from the first faces-config file.


hope im able to explain myself.
thnx.

[g madhava]

Just reference them and it should work.
In your first faces-config.xml file.

<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>firstBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>
first.firstClass </managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
<managed-bean>

Your second faces config.xml file can reference the first as below.

<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>secondBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>
second.secondClass </managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
<managed-property>
<property-name>first</property-name>
<property-class>
first.FirstClass
</property-class>
<value>#{firstBean}</value>
</managed-property>
</managed-bean>

 
//first class 
 
package first;
public class FirstClass
{   
}
 
//Second Class
package second;
import first.*;
public Class Second
{
 private FirstClass first;
 
 public void setFirst(FirstClass aFirstClass)
 {
  this.first = aFirstClass;
 }
}