JPA and JSF: right way of injecting EntityManager

Question

It has been some hours I\'m working on this but still I haven\'t figured out what is the right way of using JPA with JSF.

I have a session scoped managed bean that can d

Answer 1

"someone tells that I have to inject the EM directly into my managed beans using the PersistenceContext annotation."

If you look at the Java EE tutorial, that's exactly what they do

@Singleton
public class MyUserDatabaseEntityManager { 
    // declare a producer field 
    @Produces
    @UserDatabase
    @PersistenceContext
    private EntityManager em;
}

@ConversationScoped
@Stateful
public class RequestBean {

    @Inject
    @UserDatabase
    EntityManager em;

This may not completely answer your question, but hope it helps.