JSF backing bean accessibility from external class

Question

I am using JSF in my application. Consider i am assigning a value of the inputtext field to a string in my managed bean. This bean has the getters and setters for the string.
Now my requirement is to get the value of the string i.e. the string value entered in the input text field in another class file. If "A" is a backing bean, I want a class B to access the values(in this case the inputtext value) from A.
Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Below is the code where i am using the inputtext tag in the JSP page
<h:inputText value="#{person.name}" />
"person" is the backing bean which is declared in the faces-config.xml
PersonBean code:*
package jsfExample;
public class PersonBean {
     private String name;
public void setName(String name) {
          this.name = name;
public String getName() {
          return this.name;
Now i have another class in the same package as shown below.
package jsfExample;
public class worker extends PersonBean{
//this function should use the variable name present in the backing bean//
     public void access(){
     PersonBean person= new PersonBean();
     String str=person.getName();
     System.out.println(str);
//I am getting null value in the str variable inside here//
but if i print the variable inside the backing bean(*PersonBean*) it is working fine.