Hi, i think you are looking for somthing like a PhaseListener. You can configure such a Listener in faces.xml.
make your listener to return javax.faces.event.PhaseId.RENDER_RESPONSE in getPhaseId() method and the beforePhase() method of your listener is invoked just before rendering. Saul Qunming Yuan wrote: > I see. The outputText way is actually what I did. So, is there a way to > call a method in the backing bean when/before loading a JSF page? > Something like a pre-render method before loading a JSF page? I can do > that in the backing bean methods that forward to the JSF page, but there > are many places that could forward to that JSF page. That's why I trying > to do it in the JSF page itself. > > thanks -- Don't answer to From: address! Mail to this account are droped if not recieved via mailinglist. To contact me direct create the mail address by concatenating my forename to my senders domain.
