JSF :: Using Generic Templates For Managed Beans

I'm wondering if there's a way to build a template for managed beans which could be extended by a constructor instead of re-writing beans for each entity. I can do that quite easily for Dao objects by creating facades and using those facades to create Dao implementations for specific entities. Not sure if the same concept works for managed beans and haven't really come accross any searches.

I wrote the following but I'm not sure how to implement or even if the concept of generics and templating can be applied to managed beans in the same way it can be applied to Dao classes:

public class BeanTemplate<T> {
private ListDataModel<T> listModel;
@EJB
private GenDao dao;
private Class<T> entityClass;

[Code] .....

The above assumes there's only one method needed in the bean. I thought of extending like this:

public class EmployeeBean extends BeanTemplate<Employee> {
public EmployeeBean() {
super(Employee.class);
}

// how can the methods be called??

Is the same concept for creating dao templates possible for managed beans?