How to bind input form to new entity outside of a long running conversation

[mocha]

I have a search screen that lists and allows searching of contacts.  This is outside of a long running conversation.  I would like to place an input form on this page to enable quick  addition of new contacts. 

If the page was running in a long running conversation I could  do something like the following

@Stateful
@Name("contactManager")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class ContactManager {

@Out
Contact newContact = new Contact();

public saveNewContact() {
  entityManager.persist(newContact);
  newContact = new Contact();
}

The view would simply be something like

<h:form>
 <h:inputText value="#{newContact.firstName}"/>
 <h:inputText value="#{newContact.lastName}"/>
 <h:commandButton value="Save" action="#{contactManager.saveNewContact}"/>
</h:form>

Question is, how do I do achieve the same thing outside of a long running conversation?  I could add firstName and lastName as bean properties of the manager, but this means I have to duplicate validation rules on the entity.  I would prefer to inject/bind directly to the new entity if possible.

Thanks

[norman]

The only reason this doesn't work is because you are relying on an outjected newContact.  Instead, define newContact in XML and inject into your contact manager.  (or better yet, find a way to incorporate EntityHome and then you can do it with no code at all)

[mocha]

Thanks Norman - the suggestion works.  Just to expand on the detail if anyone else is interested...

I added the following to components.xml

  <component name="newContact"
               scope="conversation"
               auto-create="true"            
               class="com.yourpackage.Contact"/>

and changed the manager to inject the new contact

@Stateful
@Name("contactManager")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class ContactManager {

@In
Contact newContact;

public saveNewContact() {
  entityManager.persist(newContact);
  newContact = new Contact();
}