5.1.0.GA: PostConstruct is not called for JSF managed beans

[nbelaevski]

Hello,

We are having problems with @PostConstruct being ignored for JSF managed beans. That is the initial thread: http://community.jboss.org/thread/146611?tstart=30 . There are two issues about this in JBoss AS JIRA already, both are closed as "done": https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-5673 and https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6002 . I've investigated the problem using JBoss 5.1.0.GA (the same issue reported reproducible for 6.0.0.M1) either updated with JSF 2.0 libraries or without them and created simple Maven2 test project illustrating the problem (it's attached). The problem has been tracked down to the used implementation of JSF InjectionProvider interface. The following lines in web.xml:

     <context-param>
          <param-name>com.sun.faces.injectionProvider</param-name>
          <param-value>org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.injection.JBossInjectionProvider</param-value>
     </context-param>

make the annotation work fine, but default implementation of injection provider (org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.injection.JBossDelegatingInjectionProvider) doesn't lead to @PostConstruct being processed.

Can please someone take a look at the problem?

[emuckenhuber]

You would need to use an EE5 web deployment descriptor instead of the <!DOCTYPE .... otherwise annotations like @PostConstruct will be ignored:

<web-app version="2.5"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

Can you give it a try, then the @PostConstruct as well as other injections should work.

[ppitonak]

Thank you, this helped.

[ganesh_p]

Hi,

       My web.xml and faces-config.xml have 2.5 and 1.2 versions correctly. But, still, PostConstruct is not called. I am using JBoss 5.1.0 with JSF 1.2 RI. Even, I tried placing the  JBossInjectionProvider and JBossDelegatingInjectionProvider also in my context-param but didnt work. Please let me know if I am missing anything. What configuations have to be done to make it work?

Thanks,

Ganesh

[ssilvert]

Hi Ganesh,

This question is being discussed in the JSF forum @PostConstruct annotation not called jboss5.1.

Stan