> Well, there is really no such thing as a "backing bean" in JSF. There
> are just beans that are stored into the standard servlet
> request/session/application scope hashmaps. EL expressions can then
> refer to them.
>
> The managed bean stuff is really very simple. Whenever the EL expression
> resolved is asked to evaluate an expression like "#{objname}" it looks
> in the request/session/application. If no such object is found then it
> asks the managed bean manager to create the object. And whenever the
> managed bean manager finds a <managed-property> tag while trying to
> create an object, it passes it to the EL resolver to compute the value
> before calling the appropriate setter. [any circular references cause an
> error to be reported].
Gotcha - that makes sense. I think we were making out to be more difficult than
it actually is.
>
> So I'm not sure why the spring stuff is involved here at all.
>
> Unfortunately I'm using JSF on J2EE, not on Spring so I can't shed any
> more light on your spring-related problem.
Fair enough - I will harass the Spring folks about that one ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
Thanks so much for your help!
Kind regards,
James
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