Initializing a JSF ManagedBean

Sometimes things really are easy – the fact that I Googled how to do this now seems pretty silly. The more I use JSF the more I like it 🙂

To initialize the state of the ManagedBean that a JSF page is using (like to preload data, or initialize other displayed values), just call the code from the bean’s constructor. Simple as that.

For example

@ManagedBean
public class ExampleController
{
    private String exampleProperty1;
    private String exampleProperty2;

    public ExampleController()
    {
    //example init code here, e.g. to init property values
    }

    ...

}