Managed Bean in JSF can refer another managed bean inside the faces-config.xml. There is no restriction for the type of bean can be refered. But, JSF does not support the cyclic dependencies for Managed Bean reference. also read: Introduction to JSF JSF Interview Questions Request Processing Lifecycle phases in JSF For example, you cannot refer …
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Lists and Maps as Managed Beans in JSF
This tips explain how to use List and Map classes directly as Managed Beans. Here notice that you cannot use List and Map interfaces directly as Managed Beans, you can use only the implementations classes like ArrayList, Map, etc. There is no way to call constructor in the interfaces if you use List or Map …