Backing beans (@ManagedBean) or CDI Beans (@Named)?

Question

I\'ve just started reading through Core JavaServer Faces, 3rd Ed. and they say this (emphasis mine):

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Answer 1

With Java EE 6 and CDI you have different option for Managed Beans

• @javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean is refer to JSR 314 and was introduced with JSF 2.0. The main goal was to avoid the configuration in the faces-config.xml file to use the bean inside an JSF Page.
• @javax.annotation.ManagedBean(“myBean”) is defined by JSR 316. It generalizes the JSF managed beans for use elsewhere in Java EE
• @javax.inject.Named(“myBean”) are almost the same, as that one above, except you need a beans.xml file in the web/WEB-INF Folder to activate CDI.