Good news for you! You don't have to populate any beans or forms in JSF. You use value and method binding properties so the framework can populate them itself.
Those methods are there when you need some page level functionalities. For example, I use init() usually when I need to load some data from my service layer into the ViewController backing bean to display on the page. On 12/5/05, Garner, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can somebody elaborate on more uses of these? > > > > init() > > preprocess() > > prerender() > > destroy() > > > > I currently have a start and save struts (in a struts 1.1) methods that > populate the form bean values from a session object for the start and save > the values from the form bean into a session value object. > > Could these be used for the same purpose with a managed bean in a shale > application? > > > > > > Shawn > > > > > > **************************************************************************** > This email may contain confidential material. > If you were not an intended recipient, > Please notify the sender and delete all copies. > We may monitor email to and from our network. > > **************************************************************************** > > -- Alexandre Poitras Québec, Canada
