永远不会在ManagedBean上调用@PostConstruct方法init（）

Question

I'm still a beginner at JSF programming and I'm trying to do a little example to understand how it works. I'm facing the problem where the @PostConstruct method of a managed bean is never invoked (the instanciations in it are never made, and the println in it doesn't show a thing) I tried all sorts of managed beans (Session, Request...), but there is always the same problem !

My managed bean :

@ManagedBean(name = "helloWorldMBean")
@SessionScoped
public class HelloWorldMBean implements Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private PortletRequest request;
private String nom;
private String prenom;
private String complement;
private BigDecimal age;
private String year;

/* getters and setters */

@PostConstruct
public void init() {
    System.out.println("Hi !");
    if (request == null) {
        request = (PortletRequest) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
    }
    complement = "...";
    nom = "Init";
    System.out.println("Comp : " + complement);
}

Answer 1

Thanks for your comments. I just found out what was missing on my project : it's the jboss-deployment-structure.xml ! I added it with the dependencies and it worked, though I don't understand it yet.