Configure Managed Bean with XML

I jot down this note from one of the JFS tutorial by MKYong. Just in Case I forgot about it.

With XML configuration, you can use the old JSF 1.x mechanism to define the managed bean in a normal faces-config.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config
    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_2_0.xsd"

    version="2.0">
    <managed-bean>
	  <managed-bean-name>helloBean</managed-bean-name>
	  <managed-bean-class>com.mkyong.common.HelloBean</managed-bean-class>
	  <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
     </managed-bean>
</faces-config>

Best Practice
It’s recommended to put the managed beans in a separate XML file because the faces-config.xml is used to set the application level configurations.
So, you should create a new XML file and put the managed beans detail inside, and declared the XML file in the javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES initialize parameter, which is inside the WEB-INF/web.xml file.

web.xml

…
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/manage-beans.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
…

looks good

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