仅对特定页面执行managedBean方法

Question

For a page, I need to initialize potentially a huge list of object. For now, I populate this list in a @PostConstruct method

Is it possible to execute a method only on a specific page?

Or is there a JSF tag to simply execute a method and nothing more ?

It's not an important issue for me but there must be a solution.

I'm using JSF 2.

Answer 1

You may add this to your page:

<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{backingBean.desiredMethod()}" />

This will execute the desiredMethod() before the RenderView lifecycle phase.