This is another one of those times when becoming complacent with IDE tools will turn around and bite you.
Hard.
The environment:
IDE: Eclipse Helios SR2
Portal: Liferay 6.0.6
Development: JSF 2.0 (Mojarra)/ICEfaces 2.0
The Phase Listener I included in my portlet absolutely did nothing. No errors... No crashes... But it simply didn't respond in any way, shape or form.
Yes, it was configured in the faces-config.xml.
Yes, it implemented PhaseListener.
The problem turned out to be that I had allowed Eclipse to automatically add the unimplemented methods to the class when I was creating my PhaseListener. The problem was in this method:
@Override
public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}
See the problem?
It should have said
@Override
public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return PhaseId.ANY_PHASE;
}
I hadn't paid any attention to the method after it was auto-generated because I didn't need to modify it, so I didn't notice the problem.
It's a nice feature in Eclipse, but always verify that when it does things to save you some time, that it does them correctly.
