This sounds like it may work for me. I never used Shale, so how do I map the backingbean from "fooBar" to "fooBar.jsp" as you mentioned below? in face-config.xml?
thanks. > On 8/24/05, Saul Qunming Yuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for your response. I guess I didn't make me clear here. My >> question >> is how to call a method in the backing bean from a JSF page without >> rendering out anything to the screen. > > > > I would suggest using Shale with JSF. Use the Shale jars and then have > your > backing bean implement a ViewController (I just extend > AbstractViewController), and then you'll have several nice methods you can > override. One is called prerender(). So if you map this backingbean to the > correct path, for example "fooBar", when "fooBar.jsp" is called the > prerender method is invoked. That's the ultra simplified explanation and > since I'm new to this, others (Craig) will probably elaborate more. It's > really useful though for exactly what you want. > > > > > -- > Rick >
