Putting it all Together - Java EE 5 Development with NetBeans 6 - page 350

After adding all the necessary components to the page, we need to bind each text field
to a property in the Customer JPA entity. In order to do this, we need to add this entity
as a managed bean. We need to open faces-config.xml , click on the XML tag, then
right-click on the file and select JavaServer Faces | Add Managed Bean... .
We need to enter a name for the new managed bean, select or type the fully qualified
name of the managed bean class, and select a scope for the new managed bean.