This is a very subjective question. I personally disagree that article and find that it’s giving really bad advice to starters. Model Managed-Bean: This type of managed-bean participates in the “Model” concern of the MVC design pattern. When you see the word “model” — think DATA. A JSF model-bean should be a POJO that follows … Read more
Changing my initial answer – there is no meaningful difference between the two. The tutorial says that backing beans are later declared as managed beans. So, to summarize: a backing bean is the class out of context a managed bean is the backing bean whenever it is declared to be used with the JSF managed … Read more
Introduction You can get everything through ExternalContext. In JSF 1.x, you can get the raw HttpServletResponse object by ExternalContext#getResponse(). In JSF 2.x, you can use the bunch of new delegate methods like ExternalContext#getResponseOutputStream() without the need to grab the HttpServletResponse from under the JSF hoods. On the response, you should set the Content-Type header so … Read more