Hi.
Think of the backing bean you added this to as part of the view, not the model, and you should feel better about it :-).
Not much better. I'd really like to kepp my beans business-oriented, without special view-oriented features. I don't want any view beans, even conceptually.
More seriously, this also lets you do some interesting things like caching the list of documents (perhaps with freshness checks so that the document list is only reloaded when it changes) ... or even a complete change in the mechanism by which the data is acquired. All without your page developer having to know anything about it, since the expression syntax doesn't change.
There's not difference implementing these features with or without parameterizable method bindings. You still can do everything in your bean.
Bye. /lexi
