Calling init method on backing bean when JSP loads

Question

Hi All,
My problem seems simple, but I'm not having much luck finding a solution.
I have a JSF page that shows the details of an employee. So I have an employee.jsp with a backing bean EmployeeController which works fine.
The change I need to make is this: pass in an employeeId to the URL and let my controller read it.
I've tried the following in my faces-config.xml:
<managed-bean>
  <managed-bean-name>exmployeeBean</managed-bean-name>
  <managed-bean-class>
    com.acme.EmployeeController
  </managed-bean-class>
  <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
  <managed-property>
    <property-name>employeeId</property-name>
    <value>#{requestScope.employeeId}</value>
  </managed-property>
</managed-bean>And the following in my backing bean:
public void setEmployeeId(String employeeId) {
  logger.info("METHOD CALLED");
  this.refreshValuesForEmployee(employeeId);
}But I'm not having any luck (ie - this method is not being called).

Answer 1

it's ok. i found out why it wasn't working.
my scope was set to "session", but had to be "request" so that i could use the params syntax.
thanks anyway.