Denis Golovin [http://community.jboss.org/people/dgolovin] replied to the discussion "Initializing a Managed Bean's Property" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/535973#535973 -------------------------------------------------------------- It should depend on bean scope. For instance request scope bean will get re-initialized on each page refresh. I'm just guessing but why not this approach :) I get from http://www.icefaces.org http://www.icefaces.org "The simplest way is to use Chaining in the faces config and call your init method. You'll have to add an empty Object of String parameter to your a setInit method. ... <managed-property> <property-name>init</property-name> <value>java.lang.Object</value> </managed-property> .... ... <managed-property> <property-name>init</property-name> <value>#{myController}</value> </managed-property> .... where pubic void setInit(MyController controller){ controller.init(this); } " -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/535973#535973] Start a new discussion in JBoss Tools at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]