2006/4/28, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
You are correct. There is special handling defined in the Restore View phase. If that phase discovers that there is no state to be restored , then JSF will immediately forward to Render Response phase. So, how do you make sure that the right dynamic data gets loaded so that the page displays the right stuff? That's where Shale comes in handy. If your backing bean implements the ViewController interface, then prerender() will get called just before the JSP page is invoked. This is the perfect place to grab any data you need from your database to display the requested page. Craig
Craig, When the page is first viewed,If I want to dynamically set the inital value of the property of the UI component (for exsample, text of a textbox), how can I set the value of it. Even if I crab the data in prerender() method, how can I get the reference to the component without a tree in session, when Restore the View phase is skiped. -- Wang Zeng
