Component manipulation in phase listener

[Nicklas Karlsson]

Hello,

  I'm a JSF-noob(tm) and fresh convert from Struts so there might be something with the lifecycle I don't understund but...

  I'm trying to make a DB-configurable application using a phase listener that iterates over all the components in the tree and applies attributes, validators etc to them the id can be found in a map of description objects (or hide the component if the user doesn't have access to it)

  I can't however make the changes take effect when running the page for the first time. I attached the listener to all phases and the debug code shows that it is doing a setRendered(false) for a component but it still shows up! When I navigate back to the page the component disappears. Something with phases being skipped when there is nothing to restore? If so, is there a way to get around this (by using some other "for every page" method)?

Help is appreciated since this would really add some nice configurability for our application.

-Nik