Initializing Managed Bean Property

Initializing the MangedBean property:

Managed beans shall be initialized on the object creation and this shall be performed using configuration in Faces Config xml in JSF1.2 and using annotations in JSF2.0

Initializing a property in JSF1.2:

<managed-bean>

                      <managed-bean-name>testBean</managed-bean-name>
                      <managed-bean-class>com.test.TestBean</managed-bean-class>
                      <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
                      <managed-property>
                                 <property-name>name</property-name>
                                <property-class>java.lang.String</property-class>
                                <value>Enter the Name</value>
                      </managed-property>

               </managed-bean>

Initializing the same in JSF2.0: Take a look at the annotation @ManagedProperty introduced in JSF2.0 and the value attribute holds the default value to be initialized.

@ManagedBean

@RequestScoped
public class TestBean {

  @ManagedProperty(value="Enter the Name")
   private String name;
   /**
     * @param name the name to set
     */
    public void setName(String name) {
          this.name = name;
     }
   
    /**
     * @return the name
     */
     public String getName() {
         return name;
    }

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