What is component binding in JSF? When it is preferred to be used? [duplicate]

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You should use it if you want to have access to the entire UIComponent instead of just only its value. For example, to access some methods which can’t be invoked/bound in the view. This is answered in the 1st question you found: JSF component binding – some confusion

The 2nd question which you found, component binding vs findComponent() – when to use which?, merely answers “binding versus findComponent()“, it does not answer “binding versus value“ at all as you seem to think. Please don’t get confused by this. value would obviously win over binding.

In real world code, component binding to the backing bean is often only used whenever the developer needs to manipulate its children programmatically by e.g. component.getChildren().add(...). The bean should however be request scoped. A broader scope may lead to inconsitenties as component instances are basically created on a per-request basis and shouldn’t be shared across multiple requests. The view scope can also, but this is very memory inefficient, and on Mojarra versions older than 2.1.18, partial state saving must also be turned off, otherwise the view scoped bean instance referenced by binding will implicitly be recreated on every request. See also JSTL in JSF2 Facelets… makes sense? for a related answer.

It’s also possible to bind the component to “the view”. E.g.

<h:someComponent binding="#{some}">

This refers to an instance of UIComponent in the Facelet scope (“page scope”). This enables you to use for example #{some.clientId}, #{some.value} elsewhere in the same page. Note that no backing bean is involved here. See also JSF component binding without bean property.

Here are some real world use appliances of binding attribute:

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