PhaseListener and Load of Page

Question

Hi All,
I'm trying to create a JSF page which will dynamically create additional content as soon as it is loaded. In order to do this I have created a PhaseListener which creates a few components and attaches them to the page on the PhaseEvent. This works fine whenever I reload the page (by creating a postback), but on the initial load of the page the Listener's events aren't triggered. What do I need to do in order to have an event trigger the first time a page is loaded? My code is as follow:
public PageBean() {
    LifecycleFactory lLifecycleFactory = (LifecycleFactory)FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.LIFECYCLE_FACTORY);
    Lifecycle lLifecycle = lLifecycleFactory.getLifecycle(LifecycleFactory.DEFAULT_LIFECYCLE);
    lLifecycle.addPhaseListener(new OnLoadPhaseListener());
@Override
public void beforePhase(PhaseEvent iPhaseEvent) {
    populateComponents();
@Override
public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
    return PhaseId.ANY_VIEW;
}Interesting thing is if I change the getPhaseId() to return RESTORE_VIEW, the events are never triggered.
Any and all help is appreciated,
Ristretto
Ps. I tried registering the PhaseListener in the faces-config.xml instead of the code, but it didn't make a difference.

Answer 1

I tried registering the phase listener in faces-config.xml this morning and for some reason it worked this time - must have something to do with the weekend ;)
Anycase, to answer your question, I am trying to create a base class from which all other managed page beans will inherit, which will provide default functionality. One of the things I want to provide is a default PhaseListener which the child classes can just use by overriding the methods of the base class. Now, as this base class will be used by multiple JSF projects (which are contained in WARs), I would like to JAR the base class and just include it with the other projects. If I do this, however, every faces-config.xml in every WAR will be required to register the PhaseListener, instead of just being able to inherit from the class. I would like to make the JAR completely self-sustainable, you merely need to inherit from the base class in order to use its PhaseListener.
Any ideas on how I can accomplish this?
Ristretto