different skins for different concurent users

[andreigh.ts]

I have only seen how to change the skin globally, in web.xml.

Is it possible to have 2 web users of the application use 2 different skins?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

yes. map your context param to the bean property and change its value in runtime.

[andreigh.ts]

"ilya_shaikovsky" wrote:
yes. map your context param to the bean property and change its value in runtime.

well, we use Jboss Seam and EJB3, so our backing beans are not defined with <managed-bean> xml tags.

Is there any way to map the context-param to a EJB3 backing bean without using xml <managed-bean> mappings?

[andreigh.ts]

"ilya_shaikovsky" wrote:
yes. map your context param to the bean property and change its value in runtime.

I've tryed to change the context-param value, and it seems that it doesnt work: besides the fact that init parameter is global for the application, it seems that richfaces is caching the value somehow.

What I need is to have different skins for 2 different concurrent sessions.
Is it possible?

[andreigh.ts]

I find out how to make it work with seam:

In web.xml EL expression needs to be used, that refers a seam component:

<context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.SKIN</param-name>
 <param-value>#{richSkin.skinName}</param-value>
</context-param>

The seam component is session scoped:

@Name("richSkin")
@AutoCreate
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
public class RichSkin {

 private String skinName = "blueSky";
 public String getSkinName() {
 return skinName;
 }

 public void setSkinName(String skinName) {
 this.skinName = skinName;
 }

}

calling setter method of RichSkin component has the effect of changing the skin for the current session