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I needed this for a school project and since it was so hard to find I want to share it!

usign a session javaBean to store the logged user information and then obtaining it from the Http session.

the method

public static <T> T getBean( FacesContext facesContextInstance, String beanName ){
        HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)facesContextInstance.getExternalContext().getRequest();

        return (T)request.getSession().getAttribute(beanName);
    }

the method call is:

LoggedUserBean loggedUserBean = (LoggedUserBean)Utils.getRequestBean(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(), "loggedUsr");

//now you've got your bean
Integer id = loggedUser.getId();

mind that loggedUsr is the bean name that you used on the faces-config.xml

<managed-bean>
    <managed-bean-name>loggedUsr</managed-bean-name>
    <managed-bean-class>userBeans.LoggedUser</managed-bean-class>
    <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>