There are some folks who would say to have the bean register itself as a PhaseListener in the constructor. In such a case, you could use PhaseEvent.getPhaseId() .
Dennis Byrne >-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Duffy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 01:04 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: PhaseListener > >Is it possible to implement a PhaseListener on a backing bean? I tried to do >this but could not >get it to work. > >I'd like to be able to trace the phases as a page loads. Is there some >standard way to know what >phase of the component life cycle has been activated? > >Thx. > >Mike > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >

