Hi,
situations it makes more sense to have separate beans. I'm surprised that
there's no way to call custom initializers. In EJB there's a @PostConstruct
annotation that calls custom logic after the bean manager creates the bean.
not realy a custom initializer, but according to the spec the managed
properties are set in the order they appear in the config. so you can
add a dummy property as the last one which does the initialization.
e.g.:
<managed-bean>
...
<managed-property>
<property-name>init</property-name>
<value>true</value>
</managed-property>
</managed-bean>
public void setInit(String dummy) {
// call init method
init();
}
this is what we do if needed.
Regards,
Volker
