Create Annotation and s:link

05. Jul 2008, 09:56 CET | Link Nathan Dennis

i'm having an issue with @Create annotation on a backing bean and using s:link to redirect to a page backed by that bean. it would seam that when s:link's view attribute is directed at a page backed by a bean with @Create annotation,, the create method is executed before that page is accessed... before the redirect or any method on the bean is called.

is there a way to prevent this and have the bean still execute the method with create when the page is directly accessed?

this is using seam 2.0.1.ga

some code

index.xhtml

<s:link value="my workspace home" view="/home.xhtml"   propagation="end"/> 

home.xhtml

<s:link view="/timeline/timelinebegin.xhtml" styleClass="leftnavlink"
           value="create timeline" propagation="none" rendered="#{homeAction.timelinesw == false}">
           <f:param name="timelineuserid" value="#{identity.username}" />
         </s:link> 

just a simple conditional render

HomeAction.java

@Stateful
@Name("homeAction")
@Scope(ScopeType.EVENT)
public class HomeAction implements HomeLocal {

@Create
public void homePageInit() {
        log.info("in homeACtion create");

when index.html is accessed... i can see the Create fire off in the log. boo on that.. how to stop it?