Problem running custom JSF component inside a portlet.

[Marcio E Miranda]

Hi,   We have developed some custom JSF components, but are having some trouble to make them work inside a portlet.   After some debugging, we have found out that a technique that we’ve learned from the book “Pro JSF and AJAX” (which covers component development) doesn’t work in the MyFaces portlet implementation. The technique consists of calling context.getRenderResponse() in the constructor of the custom component to determine the first time the component was rendered. This is used to add children components. The constructor may be called again in the restore view, but the children won’t be re-created. This works because the first time restoreview is called, the view will be created and renderResponse will be called, forcing the render phase to be called next.   This technique doesn’t work in the portlet implementation because the first 5 phases are executed by processAction and the render phase is executed by facesRender, which calls Lifecycle.render() directly (context.setRenderPhase is never called).   What does need to be changed in the portlet implementation to make this technique work?   Thanks!   ______________________ Marcio Miranda