Primefaces obtain inputText value in managedBean - ajax

Question

My question should be trivial for someone who is familiar with Primefaces but I'm just starting. My question is:
When I put inputText component to my web page like this:
<h:form id="formularz">
<p:inputText id="workyears" value="#{appointentBean.year}" style="width: 40px;"/>
<h:form>
I would like to retrieve the inputed text directly from appointentBean. I mean I would like to create another method in appointentBean that will process inputed text so I need inputed text to be placed in referenced field year immediately. In another worlds I need my field year in appointentBean to be automaticaly updated while someone put text in inputText component. Something like submit? I hope you understand what I mean.
Here is my managedBean:
#ManagedBean
#ViewScoped
#SessionScoped
public class appointentBean{
private int year;
public int getYear() {
return year;
}
public void setYear(int year) {
this.year = year;
}
//Here I will put another method that will be operate on year value
}

Answer 1

You can do that using events like this (read more):
<h:form>
<p:inputText value="#{viewMBean.hello}">
<p:ajax event="keyup" update="hello" process="#this" />
</p:inputText>
<h:outputText id="hello" value="#{viewMBean.hello}" />
</h:form>
Here is the viewMBean:
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped;
#ManagedBean
#ViewScoped
public class ViewMBean implements Serializable {
private String hello;
public String getHello() {
return hello;
}
public void setHello(String hello) {
this.hello = hello;
}
}
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