Thank you,Craig. What do you mean by setup action? Is that the kind of action which grabs some data, do some encapsilation work, and stuff them into JSP scopes. You say we can archive the goal with shale as well as without shale. I remeber that between phases a Phase Event will be fired. When JSF skips directly to the Render Response phase, can I use phase event listener to grab data ? Is this approach what you think is painful?
-- Wang Zeng