How to pass data from JSF to a Java Applet

Question

I'm building a web application with JSF and ICEFaces. Now I've integrated a Java Applet into one of the JSF pages.

The Question is, how can I pass information stored in the backing bean to the applet? I don't think that I neeed a bidirectional communication. I'm collection data using ICEFaces input components. For instance, hitting a button is then to cause the applet to reload with the newly collected data.

Thanks

Answer 1

Well in the end i guess your applet should represent some sort of view of your model. So in an MVC context your JSF would be your view/control, and you would have some backend model. Your applet is another view on this model, so you should have your applet be an observer or listener on your model, and when the JSF makes changes to the model you should fire an event/notify observers representing that the model changed.

Answer 2

Something like the following within your Applet tag?

<param name="welcomeMessage" value="<h:outputText value="#welcomeMessage"/>">

(Excuse any JSF inaccuracies)

And then use getParameter as normal inside the applet.