Calling a method using JSF2 + ajax

Question

I've seen a lot of examples online of code where a method is called with a "f:ajax" tag but the name of the method gets shortened in the tag when the method name starts with "get". I haven't been able to find the reason for this. Below is an example of what I mean.

For instance, in the xhtml file "sayWelcome" is called:

...
<h:commandButton value="Welcome Me">
    <f:ajax execute="name" render="output" />
</h:commandButton>
<h:outputText id="output" value="#{helloBean.sayWelcome}" />
...

but the method in the bean is called "getSayWelcome":

public String getSayWelcome(){
       return  name;
}

Why does the "get" get dropped from the method name in the "f:ajax" tag?

Cesar Loachamin · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-12 13:49:00Z

1

The JavaBeansSpecification defines the naming convention for the properties adding the get and set before the functions that acts as properties, see this article for more info.

The expression language that use JSF also complains the JavaBeans properties name convention you can check this in this article, refer to the Referring to Object Properties Using Value Expressions section.

So in conclusion when the EL (Expression language) finds a sentence as <h:outputText id="output" value="#{helloBean.sayWelcome}" /> it will try to call a getter or the setter function for the sayWelcome property, it depends if it need to assign the value (setter) or get the value (getter).

edited Jan 12, 2014 at 13:49

answered Jan 12, 2014 at 4:27

Cesar Loachamin

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hurleytom Over a year ago

Thank you @César-Loachamin, that's the info I was looking for.

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