Question

Is there any possibility in EL to invoke a method of a stateless session bean without wrapping in a backing bean? Wrapping the method call in a backing bean produces redundant code and makes performing BU cumbersome as one has to wrap every single method.

Answer 1

You can just annotate it with CDI’s @Named.

E.g.

@Named
@Stateless
public class FooService {
    // ...
}

The properness of the design is questionable. It’s IMHO tight coupling. I’d use this approach at most for extremely small webapps or quick prototyping.