[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - problem using the pages.xml to call action method?

[FredF]

Hello all.

I am having problem using the action attribute in the page element in the file pages.xml. 
I have a view-file which has a form and a datatable element. 
I want to populate this datatable with data from a seam component when the user loads the page, not in the response of the form submit.

I have defined a method initAllMessages that populates my list (my list has @Out @DataModel) with data 
and I use that list in the datatable

<h:dataTable value="#{allMessages}" var="message">
  | 	<h:column>
  |     		<h:outputText value="#{message.text}" />
  |     	</h:column>
  | </h:dataTable>


I instruct seam to call the initAllData with the action parameter 
in a page element in pages.xml like this:

<pages>
  | 	<page view-id="/input.jsp" action="#{post.initAllMessages}" />
  | </pages>



The problem is that I get an exception:

2006-12-21 10:42:39,640 ERROR [org.jboss.portal.portlet.container.org_apache_myfaces_portlet_MyFacesGenericPortlet] The portlet threw an exception
javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Exception while invoking expression #{post.initAllMessages}


The class in where I define my method to call implements an interface, has conversation scope and the Name annotation. The method it self has the @Create annotation
The seam view-file is loaded in a portlet contained in JBoss Portal. 


Why am I getting this exception when seam tries to call the method?
Is there better/another way to populate data in a datatable on a non-faces get request?

thank you.

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