@ManagedBean Annotation JSF2

[Abiodun Adisa]

I am from a Seam/JSF1 Environment. I configured my Bean using annotation but could not access the class from my JSP page
the class i defined is as follows

import java.io.Serializable;

import javax.annotation.ManagedBean;
import javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped;




@ManagedBean("ab")
@SessionScoped
public class Ab implements Serializable{
	
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -8571161477507446240L;
	private String name="Jubril";

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	

}

[Tim Holloway]

Well, part of your problem is that you don't access a class from a JSF View (what you called a "JSP"). You access an instance of a class.

Specifically, when you use the annotations that you illustrated, the JSF framework is going to instantiate a bean of class "Ab" and store it in your webapp's HttpSession object under the name "ab", since by default, the convention is to lower-case the class name's first character to form the instance name. That can be overridden with an annotation, but it's a reasonable naming convention.

So to refer to your bean's properties in a JSF view, you'd use the EL expression "#{ab.name}".