FYI, I'm going to try to go the other way: Create my own lifecycleFactory implementation, specify it in a faces-config.xml file, then have that one's constructor add a lifecycle called "DAVID", which will be specified in the web.xml as mentioned below. I'll keep everyone posted, I just need a mental break right now.
Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: David G. Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 4:12 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: RE: lifecycle questions > I doubt you'll find any examples. Changing the > lifecycle is really a pretty unusual thing to do. I'm a lot closer but my problem right now is a listener order one: the Myfaces listener loads from the Jar BEFORE my listener can load (to add my new lifecycle). Essentially, the spec says I can change the default lifecycle (a default implementation stores under the lifecycleFactory key "DEFAULT") using the web.xml context param: <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.LIFECYCLE_ID</param-name> <param-value>DEFAULT</param-value> </context-param> So, I want to change "DEFAULT" to "DAVID" so I can use my own lifecycle. But I do that in my listener, which won't load until AFTER the MyFaces jar's one loads so "DAVID" doesn't get in there and MyFaces initialization blows up like so: INFO: Reading config /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml Dec 14, 2005 3:29:24 PM org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener initFaces SEVERE: Error initializing ServletContext java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown lifecycle 'DAVID'. at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleFactoryImpl.getLifecycle(LifecycleFactoryImpl.java:60) I would prefer this over also having to change the lifecycleFactory in faces-config.xml to use a key other than javax.faces.LIFECYCLE_ID so things can still follow the JSF v1.1 spec. Now, JSF spec v1.2 would allow me to specify the javax.faces.LIFECYCLE_ID in an init param for the servlet (i.e. AFTER my listener loaded) but MyFaces isn't that far along yet so it is not an option. And yes, I tried pushing my lifecycle into the factory to replace "DEFAULT" but that exceptions out/fails: > INFO: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Lifecycle with id 'DEFAULT' already > exists. Does anyone have any ideas on how to change the listener load order? Thanks again for any suggestions, David
