How to do post injection initialization

[tuxzilla]

I want to set some property of a bean right after it is injected into another bean. For example, I want to invoke b.setProperty1(p1) in

public Class A {
 @In(create=true)
 private B b;
}

Do I do this with org.jboss.seam.postSetVariable.b event by adding this inside class A?

 @Observer("org.jboss.seam.postSetVariable.b")
 public void initB() {
 b.setProperty1(p1);
 }

But this doesn't seem to work. I got null pointer exception from b.setProperty1(p1). What is the right way of doing this?

Thanks.

[gavin.king]

There is no right way to do this in Seam. Don't do it. Seam bijection happens at invocation time.

[tuxzilla]

Ok. I worked around this problem by invoking the setter in an action method. My only question now is what is the event org.jboss.seam.postSetVariable for? I am too new to Seam to fully understand what it means when the manual says "called when the context variable is set". Does it mean bean injection or invoking a setter?

[matt.drees]

Actually I think it has more to do with outjection, or anytime you put something in a context (event, conversation, session, etc).