PanelGrid component behavior - initialization

Question

I have a behavior that I do not understand.
I have a page that has several components including a 'gridPanel' and a 'pageFragment' with a javascript date slection menu. On the page fragment, I have an 'OK' button that initiates a display sequence within the 'gridPanel'. The display sequence is in a separate session bean and consists of creating a set of components within the 'gridPanel'.
Here is what I can do.
1) Navigate to the page.
2) Push the 'OK' button.
3) The 'OK' button returns null and the page passes through the prerender code for a second time and calls the display code in the session bean.
4) The display is drawn as expected.
Here is what I want to do, but cannot.
1) Navigate to the page.
2) In the 'prerender()' method, do something that will call the display sequence in the session bean. without having to push the OK button.
Basically, I want the display to come up when the page is navigated to, without having to push another button to generatre another redisplay.
When I attempt to call the display sequence in the session bean directly, the components that are used are null.
Here is the layout for the 'gridPanel' in the page
<h:panelGrid binding="#{OverviewPage.tsOverviewPanel}" id="tsOverviewPanel">
     <ui:panelLayout binding="#{OverviewPage.titlePanel1}" id="titlePanel1">
          <h:panelGrid binding="#{OverviewBean.titleGrid}" >
     </ui:panelLayout>
     <ui:panelLayout binding="#{OverviewPage.summaryPanel1}" id="summaryPanel1" >
          <h:panelGrid binding="#{OverviewBean.summaryGrid}" id="summaryGrid"/>
          <h:panelGrid binding="#{OverviewBean.errorGrid}" id="errorGrid"/>
     </ui:panelLayout>
</h:panelGrid>
The main panelGrid component 'tsOverviewPanel' belongs to the page 'OverviewPage'. It contains two additional panels that belong to the page "OverviewPage". These panels contain one or two panelGrid components that belong to the session bean 'OverviewBean'.
When I attempt to draw directly from the prerender() method of the page 'OverviewPage" the components that belong to the session bean 'OverviewBean" are null, however, the session bean is not. Once I push the 'OK" button it apparently submits the page to be redrawn in the JSF context and the components get initialized
What I suspect is happening is that I am getting messed up with the display phases of JSF.
When I attempt to draw directly from the prerender() method, the components belonging to the session bean 'OverviewBean" have not been instantiated, even though the 'init()' method of the session bean is being called, based on my logging.
Does anyone know how I can get the necessary components to initiate in this phase?
I do not have the option of moving everything into the page itself.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, I discovered how to resolve this.
The component that you bind to can not be recreated in the backing bean. Only the components within the bound component can be recreated. So what i did was added a panelGroup and binded that to my backing bean and then was able to recreate the panelGrid that was a child of the panelGroup.