Hi Todd, Yes, I agree with Gerald.
Have a look at catagay's more recent post: http://cagataycivici.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/using-spring-to-manage-jsf-beans/ Since Spring 2.0 it has been possible to declare a scope in spring bean configuration, so there is absolutely no point in using JSF managed beans at all any more. And then with spring you have proper facilities to solve this, including (in order of preference for me): * injection via constructor params * an @PostConstruct annotation within the bean (Spring 2.5) * an init-method attribute in the bean config If you absolutely cannot move to Spring 2.x then Volker's reply is also an option: use the last property in the props list for the managed bean to trigger the init. I'm not sure what you mean by "get currently loaded beans". When beans are created they go into the standard request,session or app scopes like all other variables. You could write a custom VariableResolver that delegates all calls down to the "real" implementation; this will see every request to get a bean. However the problem is that there is no way to know whether the object returned by the underlying variable resolver has just been created or it already existed. You could register a listener on a Session which would get informed of every variable that gets added to the http session. However AFAIK there is no equivalent for request scope. Maybe you could override the HttpRequest object and use a custom map for the properties that supported a "listener" like session does. All rather tricky though. Regards, Simon On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 20:58 +0100, Gerald Müllan wrote: > Hi, > > why do you define the managed-beans via the jsf-managed-bean facility? > > Would be a lot easier if you also define them with the help of spring. > > You can use the init-method property in Spring in order to initialize > your Spring bean. > > cheers, > > Gerald > > On Nov 29, 2007 7:56 PM, Todd Nine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm using a combination of Spring and MyFaces for my project. Since I use > > the managed bean properties to inject my Spring beans into my managed beans, > > I'm unable to do initialization in the constructor, and I really need to > > implement a callback in my managed beans to initialize values from the > > Spring business objects. I have created something similar to the example on > > the following site. > > > > http://cagataycivici.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/managed_beans_aware_of_the/ > > > > However, I'm dealing with a legacy application, and I can't depend on a > > standard naming convention as the example does, there is far too much code > > to refactor everything. Is there any way I can get all currently loaded > > beans in the current thread instead of using something like the following to > > explicitly return it? > > > > event.getFacesContext().getApplication().createValueBinding(beanName).getValue(ctx); > > > > Thanks, > > Todd > > > > >
