The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10: Building Java-Based Enterprise Web Applications

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B. Scholtz, A. TijmsThe Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7310-4_8

8. Backing Beans

Bauke Scholtz¹   and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

The “backing bean” is a Jakarta Faces–specific concept. It represents the sole JavaBean class that is ultimately used as a “managed bean” responsible for providing data, actions, and/or components in a Jakarta Faces page.

Model, View, or Controller?

Jakarta Faces is an MVC (model-view-controller) framework. MVC is a widely used architectural design pattern for software applications that has its roots in desktop application development. ...