Hi, I have a basic question concerning managed-properties:
When are they instantiated? Are they instantiated when their managed bean is instantiated or only when I use EL in order to access the managed property? Maybe anyone can make that clear. If the latter is true - which I suppose - why was it implemented this way and not the first way? It forces you to always use createValueBinding method in your bean in order to instantiate managed properties that are never called from EL in JSPs. Please do not understand this mail as bashing against JSF! I just want to understand the reasons and principles behind the framework so I can use JSF appropriately. And all tutorials I found only address the case in which managed properties are called via EL... If I have to use createValueBinding I wonder what is managed here at all (It works even if I do not specify it as managed property in this case). Thanks in advance for your effort, Matthias
