Writing Properties Bound to Component Instances

A property bound to a component instance returns and accepts a component instance rather than a component value. The following components bind a component instance to a backing bean property:

<h:selectBooleanCheckbox
    id="fanClub"
    rendered="false"
    binding="#{cashier.specialOffer}" />
<h:outputLabel for="fanClub"
    rendered="false"
    binding="#{cashier.specialOfferText}"  >
    <h:outputText id="fanClubLabel"
        value="#{bundle.DukeFanClub}" />
</h:outputLabel>

The selectBooleanCheckbox tag renders a check box and binds the fanClub SelectBoolean component to the specialOffer property of CashierBean. The outputLabel tag binds the fanClubLabel component (which represents the check box’s label) to the specialOfferText property of CashierBean. If the user orders more than $100 worth of books and clicks the Submit button, the submit method of CashierBean sets both components’ rendered properties to true, causing the check box and label to display when the page is re-rendered.

Because the components corresponding to the example tags are bound to the backing bean properties, these properties must match the components’ types. This means that the specialOfferText property must be of Output type, and the specialOffer property must be of SelectBoolean type:

UIOutput specialOfferText = null;

public UIOutput getSpecialOfferText() {
    return this.specialOfferText;
}
public void setSpecialOfferText(UIOutput specialOfferText) {
    this.specialOfferText = specialOfferText;
}

UISelectBoolean specialOffer = null;

public UISelectBoolean getSpecialOffer() {
    return this.specialOffer;
}
public void setSpecialOffer(UISelectBoolean specialOffer) {
    this.specialOffer = specialOffer;
}

For more general information on component binding, see Backing Beans.

For information on how to reference a backing bean method that performs navigation when a button is clicked, see Referencing a Method That Performs Navigation.

For more information on writing backing bean methods that handle navigation, see Writing a Method to Handle Navigation .