Setting the value of a label in Primefaces

Question

I have following label in my web application

<h:outputLabel id="yearLabel" value="?" style="font-weight:bold"/>

In the controller of that page I want to set the text of this label to some value (in Java).

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Just bind it to a bean property the usual way.

@ManagedBean
@RequestScoped
public class Bean {

    private String label;

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        label = "Year"; 
    }

    // ...
}

with

<h:outputLabel ... value="#{bean.label}" />

---

Unrelated to the concrete question, I'm not sure what the functional requirement for this all is, so I can't tell if you're going in the right direction or not as to solving the requirement, but have you considered using resource bundles?