You set up employee to have a managed reference to employees. Then, once control reaches Employee.edit(), its reference to employees will have been set up already by JSF.
But employee has its managed bean reference to "employee" (EmployeeAction.java). The "edit" is a method in EmployeeAction.java not in EmployeesAction.java (EmployeesAction is the one that generated the initial DataModel)..
Are you saying 'employee' can have a managed reference to both "EmployeesAction" AND "EmployeeAction"? I didn't know you could have a single reference with more than one backing bean associate to it?
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