ADF Question: included jsp action firing after page load

Question

Hi all,
I am using JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 and ADF + BC.
Here is another interesting situation for you. I have a page with an included jsp at the top with tabbed navigation.
My page is for entering an order. Users can have multiple orders "open" in other tabs at the same time. Users can also have many other non-order pages opened in tabs. We are using the same View Objects (Entity Based) along with Transient View Objects on each order.
Each order tab needs to "remember" the orderId so that when the user clicks on a tab, the appropriate rows are set in the order that is to be "opened". This occurs in a tab's action() - setting the orderId and forwarding to the appropriate page (if different) or reloading the same page with the new id.
On page load we try to get the tab's orderId and load that as the current row of all of our view objects. This should make it seem like they are all concurrently running.
The problem is when going from order to order, once the tab is clicked, the page's OnPageLoad method runs BEFORE the action of the tab click is processed. Therefore the order that loads thinks it is the previous order, and does not load the correct View Object rows.
Does anyone know how we can force the tab action to occur before the page load so that we can get the proper orderId?
Thanks,
Heather

Answer 1

Thanks for your speedy reply Frank,
We are using the onPageLoad from the OnPageLoadBackingBeanBase which implements the PagePhaseListener.
In this we are doing something like:
        if (isPostback()) {
            String selectedTabNum =
                EL.getAsString("#{TabCounter.currentSelectedTab}");
            String test = EL.getAsString("#{TabCounter.tabOrderId" + selectedTabNum + "}");
            System.out.println("tab num " + selectedTabNum);
            System.out.println( "testing " + test );
        }our tab counter (a session bean) has these two methods (among others):
    public void setCurrentSelectedTab(int currentSelectedTab) {
        this.currentSelectedTab = currentSelectedTab;
        for(int i=1;i<= 20; i++) {
            EL.set(BACKING_START+"selectedTab"+i+"}", false);
        EL.set(BACKING_START+"selectedTab"+currentSelectedTab+"}", true);
    public String getNextAvailableTab () {
        for(int i=2;i<=20;i++) {
            boolean isTab = (new Boolean (String.valueOf(EL.get(BACKING_START+"render"+i+"}")))).booleanValue();
            if (!isTab) {
                return String.valueOf(i);
        return "0";
    }our tab header (request bean) has this method as the action for clicking a tab:
        System.out.println("handleTabNavigation");
        String componentId = actionEvent.getComponent().getId();
        String selectedTab = componentId.replaceFirst("tab","");
        int selectedTabNum = new Integer(selectedTab).intValue();
        EL.set("#{TabCounter.currentSelectedTab}", selectedTabNum);
        String tabType = EL.getAsString("#{TabCounter.tabType"+selectedTabNum+"}");
        if (tabType.equals("regular")) {
            String orderId = EL.getAsString("#{TabCounter.tabOrderId"+selectedTabNum+"}");
            EL.set("#{processScope.unfinishedHeaderId}", orderId);
        } else if (tabType.equals("standing")) {
            String orderId = EL.getAsString("#{TabCounter.tabOrderId"+selectedTabNum+"}");           
        }Thanks,
Heather