How to get a value from request param and show it on the xhtml page, without a backing component?

[cash1981]

Is this possible? I have a param with a default value set on page.xml

I have a s:link with a param name something. How can I in a outputText on the same view write the value from the s:link withouth a backing component?

Is there an EL equivalent to request.getParameter(something); ?

[blabno]

#{facesContext.externalContext.requestParameterMap.get('something')}

or maybe this

#{facesContext.externalContext.requestParameterMap.something}

Anyway if you look at FacesContext api you can see that you can obtain ExternalContext there and from there retrive request or request parameters.

[christian.bauer]

#{param.foo}

This is basic JSF.