Question

I have been working on writing a servlet for AJAX/JSON.

I want to reference my @ManagedBeans by name. I basically want to do the mapping between:

http://host/app/myBeanName/myPropertyName

and-

@ManagedBean(name="myBeanName")
public class MyBeanName {
    public String getMyProperty();
}

Can I load a bean by name from a regular servlet? Or if there is a JSF servlet or helper I could use for it please tell me about it?

Answer 1

Can I load a bean by name from a regular servlet? O

Yes if you have your bean in request scope then from servlet @RequestScope

YourBean bean = (YourBean)request.getAttribute("yourBeanName");

if it is in session scope @SessionScoped

YourBean bean = (YourBean)request.getSession().getAttribute("yourBeanName");

for application scoped bean @ApplicationScope

YourBean bean = (YourBean)getServletContext().getAttribute("yourBeanName");