CDI compatible @ManagedProperty

In JSF 2.3, the built-in scope annotations are deprecated, there are some alternatives provided in CDI, eg. ApplicationScoped, SessionScope, RequestScoped, etc.

In JSF 2.2, JSF itself provided a CDI compatible ViewScoped, go here to view more details.

There is an exception, we can not find an alternative for the legacy @ManagedProperty, there is a useful blog entry describe how to created a CDI compatible @ManagedProperty from scratch.

Fortunately, JSF 2.3 provides a built-in CDI implementation.

Let's create a sample to try it.

Create a simple backing bean.

import javax.faces.annotation.ManagedProperty;
//...other imports

@Model
public class BackingBean {

    @Inject
    @ManagedProperty("#{fooBean.bar}")
    private String message;

    public String getMessage() {
        return message;
    }

    public void setMessage(String message) {
        this.message = message;
    }

}

NOTE, @ManagedProperty is from package javax.faces.annotation, which is newly added in JSF 2.3.

fooBean is a CDI bean, which has a property named bar.

@Named
public class FooBean {

    private String bar = "bar from FooBean";

    public String getBar() {
        return bar;
    }

    public void setBar(String bar) {
        this.bar = bar;
    }
}

In the facelets template, display the message of BackingBean.

<div>
    CDI managed property: #{backingBean.message}    
</div>

Run this application on Glassfish v5, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/jsf-managedproperty/managedproperty.faces.

jsf cdi managedproperty

Grab the source codes from my GitHub account, and have a try.