How to execute java expressions programmatically in ADF ?

Expression Language (EL) in java is powerful and convenient way to access necessary objects. In ADF it is commonly used as well. I suggest you a couple helper methods to execute methods and get values via EL:

 public static Object runMethodEl(String el) {
 return runMethodEl(el, new Class<?>[0], new Object[0]);
 }
public static Object runMethodEl(String el, Class[] paramTypes, Object[] params) {
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ELContext elContext = facesContext.getELContext();
ExpressionFactory elFactory = facesContext.getApplication().getExpressionFactory();
MethodExpression exp = elFactory.createMethodExpression(elContext, el, Object.class, paramTypes);
return exp.invoke(elContext, params);
}

public static Object runValueEl(String el) {
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ELContext elContext = facesContext.getELContext();
ExpressionFactory elFactory = facesContext.getApplication().getExpressionFactory();
ValueExpression exp = elFactory.createValueExpression(elContext, el, Object.class);
return exp.getValue(elContext);
}

You may also need to pass parameters to method invoked by EL. Apparently EL does not support that. But there is a workaround, which I’ve introduced in another post.