Problem with HtmlAjaxCommandButton and method expression

[chrisad]

Hello everyone!
I have a problem that my button made in java wont fire the action Ive specified.

I have the following code:

HtmlCommandButton replyCommentButton = new HtmlCommandButton();
replyCommentButton.setId("replyCommentButton" + commentCounter);
 replyCommentButton.setValue("Create reply");
String action = "#{HandlerBean.action_replyToComment}";
ExpressionFactory factory = context.getApplication().getExpressionFactory();
Class [] argtypes=new Class[1];
argtypes[0]=ActionEvent.class;

MethodExpression replyActionExpression = factory.createMethodExpression(context.getELContext(), action, null, argtypes);

replyCommentButton.setActionExpression(replyActionExpression);

This doesnt work. It renders the button and it looks good, but nothing happens when I click it. Right below that button I have another button which Ive defined in my JSF file. It looks like this, and works perfectly:
<a4j:commandButton action="{Handler.action_replyToComment}" value="testButtonThatWorks" />


Anyone have any ideas? Thank you very much

[chrisad]

This is solved. The button needed to be added to the component tree except only to encode it.