title: Default value for h:inputText
body: <p>Imagine a text box, bound to a ManagedBean:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h:inputText id="name" value="#{mb.name}"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to default the field to a value.</p>
  
  <p>I know I can set the value in the ManagedBean at construction time, but that doesn't work for me as I use the same ManagedBean as a backing bean in different xhtml pages.  And I don't want the 'name' field to be initialized in <em>all</em> those pages.</p>
  
  <p>Can somebody suggest a strategy?  Or am I missing something essential?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you very much!
  J.</p>