________________________________ Hi, I'm trying to understand JSF application development by creating a Contacts Management page. I have the list of contacts in a XML format - each contact represented by a ContactBean, incidentally the backing bean.
Does it make good sense to separate the event handling methods of the backing bean to a more meaningful say, ContactsHandler class and leave the ContactBean with just the getters and setters. I read one good thing about JSF is to tie the action methods on the properties of the beans in the backing bean class. Does such a thing in this case - having all the updating methods, summary results etc, add any performance overhead? Also, how would I handle such a Bean - at the session level or the request level? Thanks Bala /________________________________ I try to consider the ManagedBean as the single point of view-logic for a use-case. And then the primary event-handling is concentrated in the MB. The MB will then talk to its busines-logic partner using DTO's as data-trasnport vehicles. hth Alexander
