Hi,
You can execute setup(); from your bean default constructur (inherited
from java.lang.Object).
Hope it helps.
BR,
Alecs
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:03 +0200, Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote:
> In my faces-config I have defined a bean called myBean and I have a
> trivial statement like this in my jspx file:
>
> <h:outputText value="#{myBean.myProperty}"/>
>
> However this statement is placed inside a loop and at the start of
> each iteration I need to call a method called myBean.setup() before I
> try to get any properties. Because I have not found any better way, I
> am doing the following at the start of each iteration:
>
> <jsp:useBean
> id="myBean"
> class="dk.rockit.x.y.z.MyBean"
> scope="request"
> />
> <jsp:scriptlet>myBean.setup();</jsp:scriptlet>
>
> I dislike this approach for several reasons:
> 1. Above I bind my bean to a variable directly in the jspx page -
> if the class name changes I need to manually find all the
> useBean tags in all my files and change them. Of course I
> would prefer to simply define the beans in faces-config.xml -
> that way I would only have one file to edit when a class name
> changed.
> 2. It does not feel very JSF-like I think - I was hoping for
> something more along the lines of a tag that looked like
> <f:invoke method="myBean.setup()"/>
> 3. In general I think the less the code scriptlets the better.
> Has anyone come up with a way to get arround the jsp:useBean tag?
> Apart from defining your own x:invoke tag like above ;-)
>
>
> Randahl
>
>
