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On my current project, who I wrote several blog posts before, I was missing something, the possibility to notify users when a backend process was finished.

After I read the post of Jesse Gallagher, Generating Toaster, dGrowl, etc. Notifications From Server Code, I was wondering if I can use this principle for Growl.

I found a JQuery Growl plugin who implement the Bootstrap alert classes.

So I created a managed Bean, Growl, added it to faces-config.xml, so I can use it everywhere in my application.

To the Growl class I added the toaster method from the post of Jesse and made some modifications, so it suits my needs.

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Now I am able to add a message to my application, by one line of code

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With the following result

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For possible future use I also implemented a method who reads all the FacesMessages from the FacesConext and display all the messages with the right style class for every Severity Level.