Hi,

I am trying to use JSF 2.0 flash via redirects.
I have a class named UserBean (ManagedScoped and RequestScoped).
It has a method called getValuesFromFlash which essentially gets the values from the flash and sets the coresponding properties of the UserBean

 public void getValuesFromFlash() {
        Flash flash = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getFlash();
       firstName= (String) flash.get("firstName");
        lastName = (String) flash.get("lastName");

    }

In the entry page the <h:inputText> are bound to the flash.
Snippet follows:
Entry.xhtml

<h:form>
<table>
      <tr>
        <td>First Name:</td>
        <td>
          <h:inputText id="fname" value="#{flash.firstName}"
                       required="true"/>
          <h:message for="fname" />
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Last Name:</td>
        <td>
          <h:inputText id="lname" value="#{flash.lastName}"   required="true"/>
          <h:message for="lname" />
        </td>
      </tr>
</table
 <p><h:commandButton value="Submit" action="confirmation?faces-redirect=true" /></p>
 </h:form>

In confirmation.xhtml these values are supposed to be displayed but they are not.
Snippet follows:

<table>
      <tr>
        <td>First Name:</td>
        <td>
          <h:outputText value="#{flash.keep.firstName}" />
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Last Name:</td>
        <td>
          <h:outputText value="#{flash.keep.lastName}"/>
        </td>
       </tr>
</table>
<h:form>
<p><h:commandButton value="Confirm" action="finished?faces-redirect=true" /></p>
</h:form>

In finished.xhtml I want all these to be displayed so:

<h:body>
  <h:form>
     #{userBean.getValuesFromFlash( )}
      <table>
      <tr>
        <td>First Name:</td>
        <td>
          <h:outputText value="#{userBean.firstName}" />
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Last Name:</td>
        <td>
          <h:outputText value="#{userBean.lastName}"/>
        </td>
      </tr>
     </table>
 </h:form>
</h:body>

Instead when I get redirected to confirmation.xhtml neither first nor last name is displayed, despite I used flash.keep
Also in finished.xhtml I get

org.apache.el.parser.ParseException: Encountered " "(" "( "" at line 1, column 30. Was expecting one of: "}" ... "."

If I remove the parenthesis from the expression #{userBean.getValuesFromFlash( )} and make it => #{userBean.getValuesFromFlash}

javax.el.ELException: /done.xhtml: Property 'getValuesFromFlash' not found on type com.UserBean

But why no property??It is a method! Why is the method not visible?
What I am doing wrong here please?
I am using JSF2.0 (MyFaces), Eclipse Helios and Tomcat 6 (Have also tried in Tomcat 7 but no luck).
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!