WARNING - OUTDATED CONTENT! This article is targeted on JSF 1.x. For JSF 2.x, please checkout this article. Passing action parameters from JSF to backing beans This can be done in several ways, with f:setPropertyActionListener, f:attribute and f:param. f:setPropertyActionListener: with the h:commandLink and h:commandButton tags you can trigger a method of the backing bean using the action or the a