How can I pass a value into a page fragment?

Question

How can I pass a value into a page fragment?
I am implementing four search screens. And the only thing different about them will be their backing bean.
So I’d like to do something like have four pages, each which retrieves its appropriate backing bean, sets that bean to a variable, and then includes a page fragment which contains the generic search page code (which will make use of that variable).
The code in the four pages would be something like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.0"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/>
<c:set var="searchPageBackingBean"
value="#{pageFlowScope.employeeSearchPageBean}"
scope="page"/>
<jsp:include page="./SearchPageBody.jsff"/>
</jsp:root>
At this point, what I’m seeing is that the fragment page, SearchPageBody.jsff, has no visibility of the searchPageBackingBean variable, either referencing it as #{pageFlowScope.searchPageBackingBean} or just #{searchPageBackingBean}

Answer 1

The following will work, assuming you are needing to access a managed bean:
Put this in the parent page:
<c:set var="nameOfSearchPageBackingBean"
value="employeeSearchPageBean"
scope="request"/>
Put this in the child, SearchPageBody.jsff:
<c:set var="searchPageBean"
value="#{pageFlowScope[nameOfSearchPageBackingBean]}"
scope="page"/>