JSF bean property not evaluated in external JavaScript file

Question

If I want to evaluate a JSF bean property from within JavaScript, I see that it works if the JavaScript snippet is inside the xhtml file, but doesn\'t work when the JavaScri

Answer 1

Another solution is to change your *.js file to *.xhtml and include it with "". To avoid the parser complaining about the use of &, < and > in your *.xhtml file, surround it with a CDATA tag. The disadvantage of this is if the *.js file is being used in other pages, the browser won't be able to cache it.

MyJS.xhtml (changed from MyJS.js)

In your index.xhtml file, do the following:

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