H:inputText ; How To initialize value Property from back/bean method?

Question

Hello Guys at Sun Forums.
I am a newbie at using JSF. and I'm having a bit of a Problem.
I don't know how to initialize the value property of a h:inputText from a method inside a backing bean that returns a String data type.
My Method inside the Backing bean is this:
public String getLastDate()
        Connection con = null;
        Statement stmt = null;
        ResultSet rs = null;
        Date DateCapt = null;
        String DateConv= null;
        try{
            Class.forName("com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybDrive").newInstance();
            con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sybase:Tds:localhost/BAN_PRO_SNP", "xxxx", "xxxx");
            if(!con.isClosed()){
                stmt = con.createStatement();
                stmt.executeQuery ("SELECT TOP 1 CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), fec_parametro, 103) fec_parametro FROM snp_sei_parametros" +
                "     WHERE cod_parametro = 'FECHA'" +
                "     ORDER BY fec_parametro DESC");
                rs = stmt.getResultSet();
                while (rs.next())
                            DateCapt = rs.getDate("fec_parametro");
            rs.close();  
            stmt.close(); 
        catch (Exception ex)
                    System.out.println("COULD NOT LOAD THE DRIVER!!!!");
                    System.out.println(ex);
                DateConv = String.valueOf(DateCapt).toString();
    return DateConv;
}As you can see the Method returns a String data type, and all I want to know is how put that returned String as the initial value of a h:inputText. when the jsf-jsp page loads.
Please Help Me.

Answer 1

You should be able to do
   <h:inputText value="#{bean.lastDate}"/>Where 'bean' is the managed bean name containing
the method getLastDate().
When the view is rendered, the getter (getLastDate())
will be called to display whatever value is returned.