Calling Controller method before page render

Hi All,
I have created menu in my web application using DHTML Tabber where each menu item is a link.
I am using Facelets with JSF 1.2 .
I want on click of each menu item a page should load in the body section of my template but before that I want a controllers method to be executed which would do some initializations. I cannot change the links in my menu to be <h:commandLink> since the menu is created using javascript (it cannot have <h:commandLink> in it) .
How do I achieve this ?

I think the issue here is generating the action on the server side when the link is selected.
You might want to look into the solutions people have devised for so-called pretty URLs in JSF. Scales, a component library companion to Mojarra, the Sun RI, contains some support for these.
Solutions that spring to mind off the top of my head are using a PhaseListener to detect the links and queue the event or using a placeholder component which processes the links in the decode (similar to how commandLink works).

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