Is there a way to specify the order in which ApplicationScoped managed beans are initialized?

Question

I was wondering because I came across a peculiar behavior with ApplicationScoped managed beans and a class with a

static {
    //some code that accesses an application bean
}

section in it that extends an ApplicationScoped bean

I am using JSF 2.1.17 with Tomcat 7.

Answer 1

That's just bad design in first place. Application scoped beans are not static, they are just application scoped.

Inject the one as a @ManagedProperty of the other and perform the job in @PostConstruct instead.