Pageless Managed beans and operation bindings, design question

Question

Hi,
I am using ADF Faces and ADF BC and JDev 10.1.3.
I want to declaratively execute an operation binding from a managed bean which does not have a page definition.
How can I create a page definition for a managed bean which will allow me to define and call operation bindings in the same way that you can in a backing bean?
In the past I have used the binding layer to get references to the AM and then execute the client methods directly.
How can I do this declaratively from a managed bean?
regards,
Brenden

Answer 1

Hi Steve,
a good example would be a managed bean which is used by many pages for provide dynamic page forwarding (using global forwards).
The page forwarding is based on what data the user has selected and the entry tasklist will have pages added and removed based on the users entered information.
At the moment I use references in the managed bean which get the binding context by evaluating #{data} to get a reference to the AM and directly call an client method, which calls a PL/SQL procedure and returns a global forward string. The AM is imported into the managed bean and methods called directly.
This is just one example, but probably the best I can come up with for now.
In a backing bean I can use an operation binding to call a method and get a result declaratively like this:
        BindingContainer bindings  = getBindings();
        OperationBinding operation = bindings.getOperationBinding("getUserByEmail");
        operation.getParamsMap().put("email", email);
        String userName = (String)operation.execute();whereas in a managed bean I have to get direct references to the AM to call the method directly.
if there is a way to do this in the same way as backing beans it would seem a more abstracted and cleaner approach?
regards,
Brenden