Programmatically publishing Contextual Events

Question

Does anyone know whether there is a programmatic way of publishing contextual events? The usual route of course involves invoking an operationBinding or updating an attributeValueBinding, but those seem some what complex ways of publishing an event if you would want to do so from for example a serverListener or some other part of managed bean logic.
thanks.
Lucas

Answer 1

Lucas,
Below is an event producer binding and the code that invokes it from an ADF Faces button. If you call the same from a managed bean then you need to create the
ActionEvent manually before you invoke it
<eventBinding id="MyEventBinding"
   Listener="javax.faces.event.ActionListener">
   <events xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adfm/contextualEvent">
     <event name="mActionEvent"/>
   </events>
</eventBinding>
public void onEmployeeSelect(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
  BindingContext bctx = BindingContext.getCurrent();
  BindingContainer bindings = bctx.getCurrentBindingsEntry();
  JUEventBinding eventBinding = null;
  //get a handle to the eventBinding
  eventBinding = (JUEventBinding) bindings.get(“MyEventBinding”);
  ActionListener al = (ActionListener)eventBinding.getListener();
  al.processAction(actionEvent);
}Frank