Processing a request from JSF page?

Question

Hello all,
I made a small page in JSF to display a form. I want to process the data in an EJB. When I press the submit button, a particular method is called. How should I pass the form data to EJB - I mean in what format,
should I pass various arguments to a method of bean? That doesn't sound like good practice. What if I have many fields in form?
should I pass the arguments as a List array of Strings?
or is there some better method?

Answer 1

Hi Vikram,
To understand i am giving small exaple to you which helps u to get the formdata in the managed bean method.
Below is the sample code, we have a input text and the value is binded to Register that is a managed bean which u need to register in faces-config.xml file.
When you clicks the commandButton below the action will be submitted and the method process will invoke in the managed bean (Register). In this method you will get the inputText value which you entered.See the below code how to get the value.
<h:inputText id="text1" value="#{Register.text1}" styleClass="inputText" />
<h:commandButton id="bLogin" value="Login" action="#{Register.process}"/>
public class Register extends PageCodeBase{
private String text1=""; //created one string for the textBox id=text1 and provide setters & getters
public String getText1() {
          return text1;
     public void setText1(String text1) {
          this.text1 = text1;
public String process(){
System.out.println("IN PROCESS METHOD");
//In the below line you will get the value entered in the text box.
System.out.println("Getting the value of input text box:::"+getText1());
Here you can perform what ever business login u need.
return "back";
Feel free to ask any questions.
Thank You,
Subrahmanyam Baratam.