Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

... objects), meaning that—unlike prior versions of JSF—you do not need to extend a special class to create the beans used in JSF applications. Instead various annotations are used to “inject” functionality into your beans so they can be used easily in JSF applications. The JSF framework is responsible for creating and managing objects of your JavaBean classes for you—you’ll see how to enable this momentarily.

Class WebTimeBean

Figure 30.6 presents the WebTimeBean class that allows the JSF document to obtain the web server’s time. You can name your bean classes like any other class. We chose to end the class name with “Bean” to indicate that the class represents a JavaBean. The class contains just a getTime method (lines 13–17), which defines the ...