Joshua,
have you looked at <x:aliasBean/> ?
You can do something like this:
<x:aliasBean sourceBean="#{my_managed_bean}" alias="#{customer}">
...
<h:inputText id="name" value="#{customer.name}"/>
...
Regards,
Matthias
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:52 PM
> To: MyFaces Discussion
> Subject: j:viewBean
>
>
> If you need to refer to a managed bean with a different name,
> you can create a simple component that assigns the value of
> an EL-expression to a view-scoped identifier, i.e.
>
> <j:viewBean name="customer" value="#{my_managed_bean}/>
>
> This will just put this mapping intot the View Root's
> AttributeMap, making it available in view-scope to EL-expressions.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua White
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:06 AM
> To: MyFaces Discussion
> Subject: RE: Scope Between Request and Session: View Scope
>
>
> With this, your bean will be resolved by EL-expressions and
> it will last for as long as the state of your view lasts.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua White
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 3:44 PM
> To: MyFaces Discussion
> Subject: Scope Between Request and Session: View Scope
>
>
> 1. Subclass UIViewRoot and give it a property AttributeMap of
> class HashMap. Override saveState and restoreState to handle
> AttributeMap. 2. In your faces-config.xml, configure the
> component-type javax.faces.ViewRoot to your subclass of
> UIViewRoot. 3. Subclass VariableResolver and code it to
> recognize "view" scope as being the AttributeMap property of
> the UIViewRoot subclass from 1. 4. In your faces-config.xml
> file set faces-config/application/variable-resolver to your
> subclass of VariableResolver. 5. Create a managed bean with
> managed-bean-scope set to "view"
>
