Property on Backing Bean is Not set when Action Listener is Fired

Question

Why is it that when my action listener is invoked, the property for my other component on the page has not been reflected in model yet?
Here is what I have:
My JSP has the following two components:
<h:inputText value="#{manageQuestionBean.newStory}"></h:inputText>
<h:commandButton value="add" actionListener="#{manageQuestionBean.onAddStory}"></h:commandButton> My Java code has the following:
public void onAddStory(ActionEvent event) {
       //This always prints out 'null'
       System.out.println("The value of 'newStory' is: " + newStory);
      //TO DO: this is where the logic would go for creating a new story object.
    } When I put logging statements inside my setter for the newStory property, I see that it is being set to the right value, but then it being reset to empty string. Why is that? During what phase do the action listeners get invoked?

Answer 1

Which JSF implementation/version are you using?
mczauz wrote:
When I put logging statements inside my setter for the newStory property, I see that it is being set to the right value, but then it being reset to empty string. Why is that? When exactly happens when exactly?
During what phase do the action listeners get invoked?The invoke application phase, after the update model values phase.
You may find this article useful to learn about phases and how to add a 'phase debugger' yourselfl: [http://balusc.blogspot.com/2006/09/debug-jsf-lifecycle.html].