JSF Tutorial - JSF setPropertyActionListener Example

The h:setPropertyActionListener tag adds an action listener to a component that sets a bean property to a given value.

The following code shows how to use f:setPropertyActionListener.

<h:commandButton id="submit" action="result" value="Show Message"> 
   <f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{userData.data}" 
      value="JSF 2.0 User" />
</h:commandButton>

Example

The following code is from UserBean.java.

package com.java2s.common;


import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;

@ManagedBean(name="user")
@SessionScoped
public class UserBean{

  public String username;
  
  public String outcome(){
    return "result";
  }

  public String getUsername() {
    return username;
  }

  public void setUsername(String username) {
    this.username = username;
  }
  
}

The following code is from result.xhtml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"   
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      >
     
    <h:body>
      
      <h1>JSF 2 setPropertyActionListener example</h1>
    
    #{user.username}
    
    </h:body>
    
</html>

The following code is from demo.xhtml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"   
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
      >
     
    <h:body>
    <h:form id="form">
      
      <h:commandButton action="#{user.outcome}" value="Click Me">
      
        <f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{user.username}" value="java2s" />
        
      </h:commandButton>
      
    </h:form>
    
    </h:body>
</html>

Download setPropertyActionListener.zip

To RUN

Copy the generated WAR file from the target folder to Tomcat deployment folder and run Tomcat-Install-folder/bin/startup.bat.

After Tomcat finish starting, type the following URL in the browser address bar.

http://localhost:8080/simple-webapp/demo.xhtml