Couple of basic questions to help understand Seam

[alllle]

I just started using Seam. With the great potential it offers, I do run into some problems, partly due to my specific configuration, and partly due to that I missing some basic understanding of its concept.

Here are some questions I have and any help is appreciated:

1. How to use, and what is the purpose of defining a scope in the component class?
When using a component as an attribute of the Action component in webapp, the attribute component will either be given an explicit scope, or it will be the same as the scope of the Action component. These overwrites the scope defined for the component, doesn't it? If so, what do I need to consider when defining the default scope of the component?

2. Action specified in pages.xml for the page is not invoked?
In pages.xml I specified:

<page view-id="/firstpage.xhtml" action="actionComponent.begin">
 <description>Create new Itemdescription>
 ....
[/page]

I assumes that the actionComponent.begin() method will be invoked before the page is rendered. However, it's not the case. It was never invoked. What did I do wrong?

[alllle]

One more followup question regarding the default scope of a component. If I set a component's scope to be Conversation and use the @AutoCreate annotation, will it be automatically created for each new conversation, even if I do not refer to it in my code?

[dustismo]

Maybe this is just a typo on your part, but your page action will not work as written.. should be:

<page view-id="/firstpage.xhtml" action="#{actionComponent.begin}">
 <description>Create new Itemdescription>
 .....

[alllle]

"dustismo" wrote:
Maybe this is just a typo on your part, but your page action will not work as written.. should be:

<page view-id="/firstpage.xhtml" action="#{actionComponent.begin}">
 <description>Create new Itemdescription>
 .....

And that was the reason, thank!