Injecting several beans of the same type/kind/class

[toni]

Hi,

is it possible to reference several entity beans of the same type from a JSF page without adding anything to the faces-config.xml?

So that if I have the bean class EmailAddress I could simply write in my JSF page the following code:

<h:inputText value="#{emailAddress}"/>
<h:inputText value="#{emailAddress2}"/>
<h:inputText value="#{emailAddress3}"/>

I defined them in a SFSB as follows:

@Name("emailAction")
@Stateful
public class EmailActionBean implements EmailAction
{
@In(create = true)
EntityManager entityManager;

@In(create = true)
@Out
EmailAddress emailAddress;

@In(create = true)
@Out
EmailAddress emailAddress2;

@In(create = true)
@Out
EmailAddress emailAddress3;
....
}

Does seam automatically create the three instances, when the JSF page is called and even so no method of the SFSB has been invoked yet?

I thought that the JSP page only can reference the other two entity beans, once the SFSB has been invoke in some way.

However, the first bean seams to be always ready, because it's name matches it's class name (in bean style).

[norman.richards]

Seam will not create an instance of a component if it does not have a component definition for the component name. If you want it to, you need to declare addition @Role names on the entity or add the details to components.xml.

[toni]

I think it would be a nice feature if this woul work automatically. If I define a component to be created upon injection, then why only the one which is marked with a @Name("xxx) annotation?