Access session Bean from another backing Bean

[Daniel Breitner]

Hello everybody,

I have the following issue:

I have a session bean containing some information that I want to access in another backing bean.
So bean2 should somehow have access to bean1.
I thought I could use managed-properties for that but somehow I can´t find out how to do this.

Who can help me ?

with kind regards

daniel

[Tim Holloway]

You are correct. Inject the second bean into the first bean:

    <managed-bean id="categories">
        <description>This is the application-shared bean that presents the Category tree.</description>
        <managed-bean-name>categories</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>com.myapp.backing.CategoriesBackingBean</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>categoryService</property-name>
            <value>#{searchService}</value>
        </managed-property>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>categoryKeyService</property-name>
            <value>#{categoryKeyService}</value>
        </managed-property>
    </managed-bean>

This bean has 2 other beans injected into it - categoryService and categoryKeyService. So in addition to the faces-config info, there are public setter methods which I've given the same names as the injected beans. Like so:

public void setCategoryService( CategoryServiceBean injectedbean) {
this.categoryService = injectedbean;
}