EJB 3.1 Killed The Backing Beans Or JSF 2, EJB 3.1, JSR-330 - The Perfect Synergy

A Stateless Session Bean with the JSR-330 @Named annotation:

@Stateless

@Named("helloService")

public class HelloService {

    @EJB    ClockService clockService;

    public String getHello(){

        return "Hello from EJB / CDI: " + clockService.currentTime();

    }

} 

 can be directly referenced in the JSF 2:

    <h:body>

        <h:form>

            <h:outputLabel value="#{helloService.hello}"/>

        </h:form>

    </h:body> 

 You don't need the Backing Bean anymore - but you can still use it.

The project (JSF2EJB3CDI) was implemented in few minutes with NetBeans 6.8, tested with Glassfish v3 and pushed into: http://kenai.com/projects/javaee-patterns/. The entire WAR (JSF 2.0 , EJB 3.1, CDI) is 8 kB small. The initial deployment took 1.516 ms seconds, and was twice as slow, as in the Java EE 6 observer example:

INFO: Initializing Mojarra 2.0.2 (FCS b10) for context '/JSF2EJB3CDI'

INFO: Loading application JSF2EJB3CDI at /JSF2EJB3CDI

INFO: JSF2EJB3CDI was successfully deployed in 1,516 milliseconds.