Re: prepareForRender or pageBeginRender - which one should i use?

2006-11-03 Thread Robert Zeigler
prepareForRender is called every time a component is rendered. So,for instance, if your component is in a for loop that is iterating over 100 items, prepareForRender will be called 100 times. pageBeginRender is called only once per page render and once per page rewind. So if your component was in

prepareForRender or pageBeginRender - which one should i use?

2006-11-02 Thread Karthik N
Hi, I would like to do some initialization in a custom component that I'm writing up. I observe that I can do it in two ways: 1. Implement the PageBeginRenderListener and use pageBeginRender 2. Override prepareForRender My question is: Which one should I use? Thanks, Karthik