Programmatically accessing Managed Beans

Happy New Year

The traditional (best) way of accessing using managed beans is via the EL in JSF based webapps.

There are instances where u need to access a Managed Bean programaticaly (may be to avoid cyclic references in faces-config.xml thus causing deadlocks).

After so much agony I learnt how to do it and i thought of sharing it with u

FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
SessionBean bean1 = (SessionBean) context.getApplication().evaluateExpressionGet(context, "#{session}", SessionBean.class);

Of course SessionBean must already have bn declared as managed bean session in faces-config.xml

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