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>