JSF/CDI Tip of the Day: How to create a @Producer for JSF

I was using this code as a utility class to get the current HttpServletRequest object. I added the @Named annotation to expose it via Expression Language (EL). However, it should be noted that the #{request} is an implicit object already. You can see from the output below that they do produce the same output.

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<div>     #{request.getSession(false).id}     #{httpServletRequest.getSession(false).id} </div>

ServletRequestProducer.java

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package com.bluelotussoftware.bean;   import javax.enterprise.inject.Produces; import javax.faces.context.FacesContext; import javax.inject.Named; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;   /**  * A producer class that returns the current {@link HttpServletRequest} object  * from the {@link FacesContext#getExternalContext()}. This {@link Named}  * producer can be used directly in Expression Language (EL) as {@literal #{httpServletRequest}}.  *  * @author John Yeary  * @version 1.0  */ public class ServletRequestProducer {       @Produces     @Named     public HttpServletRequest getHttpServletRequest() {         HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest = null;         Object object = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();         if (object instanceof HttpServletRequest) {             httpServletRequest = (HttpServletRequest) object;         }         return httpServletRequest;     } }