Question on JSF/JSP mixing issue

Question

Hello all.
We have an JSP application which we are trying to move to JSP. After some thought we decided that these will need to coexist in some parts of the code. Now I have run into an issue as result of these and I am wondering if anyone can help. In the below example, we are tyrig to gather some table entries from a legacy object and trying to populate another JSF type bean with the same entry. Can this be accomplished using some kind of code like this with a commandLink and a param. The problem is the param is not working for me, it is showing up as null object in backendbean2. Any ideas?
My code is structured like this :
<h:form>
// JSP code here
<%
sname = Backend1.getSname();
%>
// Some entries from a table are output here. Each entry is a link and
// clicking on each entry should open up a screen corresponding to sname
// Note that our backend bean is legacy stuff and cannot be changed to
// return a datatype compatible with Datatable. hence we are using html table
<table>
<tr> Name </tr>
<td>
<h:commandLink action="#{backendbean2.processClick}" >
<f:verbatim> <% out.println(sName); %>
<f:param name="name" value="#{backendbean2.sName}>
</h:commandLink>
</h:form>

Answer 1

Please read the following article.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/06/09/jsf.html
Best practice will be to avoid mixing JSP and JSF