In JSF 2.0, a new @ManagedProperty annotation is used to dependency injection (DI) a managed bean into the property of another managed bean.

Let see a @ManagedProperty example :

MessageBean.java – A managed bean named “message“.

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
 
@ManagedBean(name="message")
@SessionScoped
public class MessageBean implements Serializable {
 
	//business logic and whatever methods...
 
}

HelloBean.java – Inject the “message” bean into the “messageBean” property.

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedProperty;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
 
@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class HelloBean implements Serializable {
 
	@ManagedProperty(value="#{message}")
	private MessageBean messageBean;
 
	//must povide the setter method
	public void setMessageBean(MessageBean messageBean) {
		this.messageBean = messageBean;
	}
 
	//...
}

In this example, it uses the @ManagedProperty annotation to DI the “message” bean (MessageBean.java) into the property (messageBean) of the “hello” bean (HelloBean.java) via setter method, setMessageBean().

Note
To make this injection successful, the inject property (messageBean) must provide the setter method.

Download Source Code

Download it – JSF-2-Inject-Managed-Beans-Example.zip (10KB)

Reference

  1. ManagedProperty Javadoc
  2. JSF 2.0 : managed bean x does not exist, Check that appropriate getter and/or setter methods exist
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