JBoss EL - Passing vlues from view to bean methods

1. add jboss-el.jar to project build path
2. add following configuration to web.xml

<!-- jboss el expressions allow method params -->
<context-param>
  <param-name>com.sun.faces.expressionFactory</param-name>
  <param-value>org.jboss.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>
</context-param>

http://www.ilikespam.com/blog/el-function-parameters-with-jboss-el