DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `exampledb`.`customer`;
CREATE TABLE  `exampledb`.`customer` (
  `CUSTOMER_ID` bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `NAME` varchar(45) NOT NULL,
  `ADDRESS` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `CREATED_DATE` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`CUSTOMER_ID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=17 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

insert into exampledb.customer(customer_id, name, address, created_date)
values(1, 'example1', 'address1', now());
insert into exampledb.customer(customer_id, name, address, created_date)
values(2, 'example2', 'address2', now());
insert into exampledb.customer(customer_id, name, address, created_date)
values(3, 'example3', 'address3', now());
insert into exampledb.customer(customer_id, name, address, created_date)
values(4, 'example4', 'address4', now());
insert into exampledb.customer(customer_id, name, address, created_date)
values(5, 'example5', 'address5', now());

package com.example.customer.model;

import java.util.Date;

public class Customer{

    public long customerID;
    public String name;
    public String address;
    public Date created_date;

    //getter and setter methods
}

package com.example;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.annotation.Resource;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import javax.sql.DataSource;

import com.example.customer.model.Customer;

@ManagedBean(name="customer")
@SessionScoped
public class CustomerBean implements Serializable{

    //resource injection
    @Resource(name="jdbc/exampledb")
    private DataSource ds;

    //if resource injection is not support, you still can get it manually.
    /*public CustomerBean(){
        try {
            Context ctx = new InitialContext();
            ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/exampledb");
        } catch (NamingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }*/

    //connect to DB and get customer list
    public List getCustomerList() throws SQLException{

        if(ds==null)
            throw new SQLException("Can't get data source");

        //get database connection
        Connection con = ds.getConnection();

        if(con==null)
            throw new SQLException("Can't get database connection");

        PreparedStatement ps
            = con.prepareStatement(
               "select customer_id, name, address, created_date from customer");

        //get customer data from database
        ResultSet result =  ps.executeQuery();

        List list = new ArrayList();

        while(result.next()){
            Customer cust = new Customer();

            cust.setCustomerID(result.getLong("customer_id"));
            cust.setName(result.getString("name"));
            cust.setAddress(result.getString("address"));
            cust.setCreated_date(result.getDate("created_date"));

            //store all data into a List
            list.add(cust);
        }

        return list;
    }
}

    
        
    

    

        
JSF 2.0 + JDBC Example

        

            
                
                    Customer ID
                
                    #{c.customerID}
            

            
                
                    Name
                
                    #{c.name}
            

            
                
                    Address
                
                    #{c.address}
            

            
                
                    Created Date
                
                    #{c.created_date}