Getting bean's fields null even though before returning fields are not null

Question

Hi All,
I have run into this weird problem. I am using sun ri 1.1_01 implementation.
I having problem getting field values from a bean on the jsp page. From my first page I click on a button and it goes to the action method in the managed bean. In this method I set the values of the fields. before returning the view Id, I print these values and everything is set. but when it goes to the next page, it does not display any values.
I have other action methods, where I am setting the same values and I am able to get those values.
The same method was working in a previous version of ear. I don't know what went wrong and it stopped working.
Here is my code of the method
this.setUserRequestedInfo(MetaDAOFactory.getDAO()
          .getAccountInfoByUID(uId));
if (this.getUserRequestedInfo() == null) {
     this.addMSGException("userRequested.not.valid");
     return NavigationResults.FAILURE;
this.logger.debug("\n\nBEFORE RETURNING FROM DEPART this.getUserRequestedInfo() = "
          + this.getUserRequestedInfo());
return NavigationResults.SUCCESS;before the return statement, when I log the values of userRequested, it prints the details, but I don't get this value in my jsp...
Is it some class loader or JSF life cycle problem?

Answer 1

Put some system.out statements into your bean setters, and see if the framework calls it after your action method.
Also, using a phase listener to get familiar with JSFs lifecycles (or finding little oddball issues like this) it's good to use a PhaseListener:
http://jroller.com/page/cschalk?entry=getting_familiar_with_the_jsf
I'm sorry I cannot give you a more specific solution. There just isn't enough information. Hopefully the above tools will help you gather more detail (and maybe even figure it out on your own!). =)
CowKing