[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - When are components created?

I created a very simple component like this: | @Name("requestBean") | @Scope(ScopeType.EVENT) | public class RequestBean { | private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("RequestBean"); | | public RequestBean() { | logger.info("Created a request bean!"); | } | | private String affiliateId; | | @RequestParameter | public String getAffiliateId() { | return affiliateId; | } | | public void setAffiliateId(String affiliateId) { | logger.info("Setting the affiliate id param: " + affiliateId); | this.affiliateId = affiliateId; | } | | } | It would seem that, because the scope is EVENT, this bean would need to be instantiated for every single seam request, and yet I never see it get instantiated. Various other beans do get instantiated, and I'm not sure how Seam decides. Also, what is the use of the @RequestParameter annotation? I've put in in various beans (stateful, stateless, entity, JavaBeans, etc) and it never gets called. Is there a way to get access to request parameters? All I want to do is have it so that if a user shows up at the site, the affiliateId (which is in a GET parameter) gets saved in a cookie. Shouldn't be this hard but I can't figure out how to even access the parameter within Seam, or even get Seam to instantiate my component. Any suggestions welcome. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966297#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...