Access of JSF Beans from Servlet Filter

Is there any way how can I access session JSF beans from servlet filter?
I need to check certain value of JSF bean stored in session scope in my filter.
Thanks
ferdo

Frank,
I am not sure about phase listener, this is the whole situation:
as I am not using Container Managed Security with my JSF, after I do sucessfull login into application, I need to store some information into the session scope (user etc) and in the servlet filter I need to find out if the user is connected.
I was trying to put such info into Servlet Session directly in my bean via External Context and reading the info in Filter.
This is working fine when my application is running locally (jdev oc4j) but once deployed into Application server, when user login first time, user information is somehow removed from the session, and cannot figure out why.
So I was thinking to try another approach, to find out from servlet filter if JSF bean value is set or not.
Any other suggestions? Do not want to swicth to Container Manages Security now.
ferdo
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