How to define managed bean as String in faces-config.xml

Hi,

I have one small confusion, while reading one tutorial i come across one line that Suppose you had a single String stored
under the key clientName in the application scope. You could reference it like this: <h:inputText value="#{testString}"/>

Can you please tell me that how to define managed bean as String in faces-config.xml

You don't define a managed bean as a string.
In faces-config.xml file you inform the Managed Bean Creation Facility that you want to create an instance of your bean and to register it under an alias (name).
You can then refer to that name in your views.

You can't define a managed bean as a java.lang.String, because a String is an immutable object and has no setter/getter methods. In other words, it fails the basic criteria for being a JavaBean - managed or otherwise.

A simple wrapper bean class that contains a single field of type java.lang.String will work, however.

Thanks all for replying.