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How to initialize List property in Managed Mean?

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List property in Managed Mean

JSF Managed Beans can initialize its List properties in the faces-config.xml. There is a property in the faces-config.xml as list-entries. This cane be used for initializing the values and can be accessed directly through the Managed Beans in any JSP pages.

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You also can directly use the List as Managed Beans.

JSP File (index.jsp)

<%@taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"%>;
<%@taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"%>
<html>
    <body>
        <f:view>
            <h:form>
                <h:dataTable var="loc" value="#{jsfBean.listValues}">
                    <h:column>
                        <h:outputText value="#{loc}"/>
                    </h:column>
                </h:dataTable>
            </h:form>
        </f:view>
    </body>
</html>

JavaBean (JavaBeatJsfBean.java)

package javabeat.net.jsf;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * source : www.javabeat.net
 */
public class JavaBeatJsfBean {

    private List listValues;

    public List getListValues() {
        return listValues;
    }

    public void setListValues(List listValues) {
        this.listValues = listValues;
    }
}

faces-config.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<faces-config version="1.2"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">
    <managed-bean>
        <managed-bean-name>jsfBean</managed-bean-name>
        <managed-bean-class>javabeat.net.jsf.JavaBeatJsfBean</managed-bean-class>
        <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
        <managed-property>
            <property-name>listValues</property-name>
            <list-entries>
                <value>Google.com</value>
                <value>Yahoo.com</value>
                <value>Guruji.com</value>
            </list-entries>
        </managed-property>
    </managed-bean>
    <navigation-rule>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/index.jsp</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
    </navigation-rule>
</faces-config>

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