Is there a way of using an XPages data source (document or view) as a property in a managed bean?

Data source itself is a request scope bean. It is bad idea to keep it as property, I would suggest that your bean's methods accept data source as parameter. Another approach would be to keep String value of data source name, and get it via JSF binding.

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