but remember that getter may be called few times! i assume that in order to see your page user must click sth (ex. somme kind of menu) and i assume that u have action binded to that click that returs string maped to desired page. so just add call your method in that action.
Słąwek Sobótka > Thanks for your reply, that makes sense. But won't h:commandLink render a > link and h:commandButton render a button in the page? I don't want to > display anything on the screen. My purpose is to initiate a call from the > JSF page to a method in the backing bean when the JSF page loads. I'm > returning an empty string from the method so nothing gets printed out from > <h:outputText>. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "MyFaces Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:53 PM > Subject: Re: How to call a method in the backing bean from a JSF page > > > > Try h:commandLink or h:commandButton. > > If your method returns a string that doesn't match any navigation-rule > > in your faces-confix.xml then the same page you came from will be > > rendered again. > > > > > > On 8/24/05, Saul Qunming Yuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm wondering what's the correct way to call a method in the backing bean > >> from a JSF page. What I tried is to use <h:outputText > >> value="#{theBackingBean.theMethod}" />, the backing bean method returns > >> an > >> empty string, so nothing gets printed out in the page. Which works, but I > >> am > >> not sure this is the correct way to do it. > >> > >> thanks, > >> Saul > >
