It might be overkill for you, but you could try our
http://ocpsoft.com/prettyfaces/ extension for JSF. It enables page-load
actions and bookmarking support.
Also, JBoss Seam 3 will be supporting JSF page actions as soon as we get the
beta out :)
--Lincoln
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:22 AM, <webtier_at_javadesktop.org> wrote:
> You might try the following approaches:
>
> 1. Make the bean view-scoped, so that it doesn't get re-constructed on each
> postback. (In case you prefer CDI, here's an article on adding the
> @ViewScoped context to CDI:
> http://www.verborgh.be/articles/2010/01/06/porting-the-viewscoped-jsf-annotation-to-cdi/
> )
>
> 2. Manually check whether the request is a postback:
>
> [code]
> @PostConstruct
> public void init() {
> if (!FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().isPostback()) {
> ...do some initialization here...
> }
> }
> [/code]
>
> There might be other approaches too.
>
> I won't try to assess their merits and drawbacks right now. I only wanted
> to share what first came to mind.
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>
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