The Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8: Building Web Applications with JavaServer Faces

© Bauke Scholtz, Arjan Tijms 2018

Bauke Scholtz and Arjan TijmsThe Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3387-0_8

8. Backing Beans

Bauke Scholtz¹  and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

The “backing bean ” is a JSF-specific concept. It represents the sole JavaBean class which is ultimately used as a “managed bean ” responsible for providing data, actions, and/or UI (User Interface ) components in a JSF page.

Model, View, or Controller?

JSF (JavaServer Faces ) is a MVC (model-view-controller ) framework . It’s a widely used architectural design pattern for software applications which has its roots in desktop application development.¹

In a JSF framework’s point of view, the ...