Based on the article here http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/erik/entry/xpages_are_not_modern?lang=cs_cz  the XPages are based on JSF 1.2  .... what means that we should be able to use annotaions on managed beans to inject the beans lifeCycle.

 

I have found the following information (below) in the docs. But annotations do not work for me in managed beans. I have tried both @PostConstruct and   @PreDestroy but nothing happened. Is there anyone who has experience with this?

 

 

[Life Cycle Annotations]

Starting with JSF 1.2, you can specify managed bean methods that are automat-ically called just after the bean has been constructed and just before the bean 

goes out of scope. This is particularly convenient for beans that establish con-nections to external resources such as databases. 

Annotate the methods with @PostConstruct or @PreDestroy, like this:

 

public class MyBean {

   @PostConstruct

   public void initialize() {

      // initialization code

   }

   @PreDestroy

   public void shutdown() {

      // shutdown code

   }

   // other bean methods

}

These methods will be automatically called, provided the web application is 

deployed in a container that supports the annotations of JSR (Java Specification 

Request) 250 (see http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=250).