title: How to send form input values and invoke a method in JSF bean
body: <p>I am building a JSF application. I defined the GUI and did the select statements query the database using select.</p>
  
  <p>Now I must do the insert statements, but I don't know how to read the <code>value</code> of a JSF input component like <code>&lt;h:inputText&gt;</code> and send it to my bean which performs the insert.</p>
  
  <p>Should <code>&lt;h:inputText&gt;</code> value be mapped through <code>faces-config.xml</code>, so I can have it in my Java code?</p>