Actually, you're working too hard. Just use:

<value>#{businessDelegate}</value>

JSF IoC container is not that powerful, I prefer to use Spring and then use the Spring delegating variable resolver.

You could also write your own JSF variable resolver and then manage the businessDelegate w/o putting it into scope.

You can accomplish that with standard managed beans my setting the <managed-bean-scope> on the "businessDelegate" bean to be "none". This is like the create-every-time mode of Spring ... you always get a new instance each time the expression is evaluated, and it is never placed into any scope.

Craig

Thanks craig & rick,

As a follow up, is there any way to organize namespaces in managed-bean-names? Apart from using underscores can I do something like:

<managed-bean-name>delegates.businessDelegate</managed-bean-name>

Im assuming the JSF EL will try to read that as:

delegate.getBusinessDelegate()

Any better way around that than really long names?

Dhanji.