Please Help me to solve this issue

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Hi,
i am using JSF and Hibernate . and i want to pass some data from Jsf to data base... i hardcoded that and tried .. data is sending and retriving database side(model ) fine. my problem is the data from JSF is not passing to the bean.. i am new to JSF and i will summarize my procedure here
1. i have two text boxes and a button inside my <h:form> once a button clicked the values of the text fields must send to java bean(it is not happening it seems). i added my code section below
<h:form>
<some static values here >
<table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 border=0 rules=none bordercolor=e0e0e0 width=99%>
<tr bgcolor="ffffff">
<td width="150" valign=top bgcolor="ffffff" nowrap><font style="COLOR: 000000; FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana"><h:outputText value="#{labels.newVatRate}"/>:</td>
<td valign=top bgcolor="ffffff" nowrap><font style="COLOR: 000000; FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana">
<h:inputText styleClass="TextField" id="vatRateName" size="25" value="#{vatRates.vatRateName}"/><h:outputText value="Rate"/><h:inputText styleClass="TextField" id="rate" size="25" value="#{vatRates.rate}"/> <h:commandButton id="vatRatesSave" value="Add" action="#{vatRates.save}"></h:commandButton>
</td>
</tr></table>
here save is a method in bean and rate abd vatRateName are strings inside bean
my faces config is as like this
<managed-bean>
<description>
Agency Information
</description>
<managed-bean-name>vatRates</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.easymodelling.entity.VatRates</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
please resopnd this and help me

Answer 1

Hi,
thank u for your quick reply...
i tried the way u said .. then it is not calling bean .. so do u know what may be the problem? for getting faces i did the following steps
1. create a jsp page with jsf functionality
2. create a bean
3. edited faces config by adding the managed bean
is there any thing more required ?
then is there any good ide (light weight) for jsf ?