Create component from pageflow

[dgallego]

I can't create a component within a seam pageflow:
The following code works if the 'contactAction' seam component has already been created, for example when viewing a facelet using it.

<start-page name="contactPage" view-id="/pages/contacto/index.seam">
 <redirect/>
 <transition name="sendMessage" to="evaluateMessageSent">
 <action expression="#{contactAction.sendMessage}"/>
 </transition>
 </start-page>

 <decision name="evaluateMessageSent" expression="#{contactAction.messageSent}">
 <transition name="true" to="messageSentPage"/>
 <transition name="false" to="messageFailPage" />
 </decision>

 <!-- Pages -->
 <page name="messageSentPage" view-id="/pages/contacto/messageSent.seam">
 <redirect/>
 <end-conversation/>
 </page>
 <page name="messageFailPage" view-id="/pages/contacto/messageFail.seam">
 <redirect />
 <end-conversation />
 </page>

Is it possible to invoke #{contactAction} from a pageflow when that component hasn't been created?

[gavin.king]

This should work fine:

public class SeamVariableResolver implements VariableResolver {

 public Object resolveVariable(String name) throws ELException {
 name = name.replace('$', '.');
 return Component.getInstance(name, true);
 }

}

[dgallego]

Thanks Gavin for the response, but where do I need to put that VariableResolver?

[gavin.king]

You shouldn't need to do anything, that is built in to Seam.

What I'm trying to say is that any Seam component should be auto-instantiated by the jBPM variable resolver.