How to call a method in the backing bean from a JSF page

[Saul Qunming Yuan]

Hi,   I'm wondering what's the correct way to call a method in the backing bean from a JSF page. What I tried is to use <h:outputText value="#{theBackingBean.theMethod}" />, the backing bean method returns an empty string, so nothing gets printed out in the page. Which works, but I am not sure this is the correct way to do it.   thanks, Saul