Question

Having a @Named Bean: HelloBean

In a JSF page, Why this reference is correct:

#{helloBean.var1}

And this doesn’t appear to: (IDE Warning: “Can’t resolve variable Name”)

#{HelloBean.var1}

Answer 1

From the Oracle’s Java EE 6 Tutorial:

The @Named qualifier allows you to access the bean by using the bean name, with the first letter in lowercase.

The same rule applies also for ManagedBean annotation:

If the value of the name attribute is unspecified or is the empty String, the managed-bean-name is derived from taking the unqualified class name portion of the fully qualified class name and converting the first character to lower case