When using Icefaces, the lifecycle events such as init(), destroy(), prerender(), preprocess() are not consistently called on request-scoped beans that come with Netbeans (e.g. inherited from AbstractPageBean).

I attach two identical projects (see attachments to forum post http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/7010.page) with and without Icefaces that demonstrate the problem. The project contains two pages - Page1 contains a button that takes user to Page2 and Page2 has a button that takes him back to Page1. Each event that fires writes a message to the server log. Let's look at the logs:

TestJsf project is pure JSF (doesn't use Icefaces) generates correct sequence of events:

 -- original request to Page1
 Page1 constructor testjsf.Page1@1ae4426
 Page1 init() testjsf.Page1@1ae4426
 Page1 prerender() testjsf.Page1@1ae4426
 Page1 destroy() testjsf.Page1@1ae4426
 
 
 -- button on Page1 clicked
 Page1 constructor testjsf.Page1@9e3065
 Page1 init() testjsf.Page1@9e3065
 Page1 preprocess() testjsf.Page1@9e3065
 Page1 button action testjsf.Page1@9e3065
 Page2 constructor testjsf.Page2@710a3b
 Page2 init() testjsf.Page2@710a3b
 Page2 prerender() testjsf.Page2@710a3b
 Page1 destroy() testjsf.Page1@9e3065
 Page2 destroy() testjsf.Page2@710a3b
 
 -- button on Page2 clicked
 Page2 constructor testjsf.Page2@c47ee4
 Page2 init() testjsf.Page2@c47ee4
 Page2 preprocess() testjsf.Page2@c47ee4
 Page2 button action testjsf.Page2@c47ee4
 Page1 constructor testjsf.Page1@66da50
 Page1 init() testjsf.Page1@66da50
 Page1 prerender() testjsf.Page1@66da50
 Page1 destroy() testjsf.Page1@66da50
 Page2 destroy() testjsf.Page2@c47ee4
 
 -- button on Page1 clicked
 Page1 constructor testjsf.Page1@159bc95
 Page1 init() testjsf.Page1@159bc95
 Page1 preprocess() testjsf.Page1@159bc95
 Page1 button action testjsf.Page1@159bc95
 Page2 constructor testjsf.Page2@6be940
 Page2 init() testjsf.Page2@6be940
 Page2 prerender() testjsf.Page2@6be940
 Page1 destroy() testjsf.Page1@159bc95
 Page2 destroy() testjsf.Page2@6be940
 


TestIcefaces project uses Icefaces instead of pure JSF. It swallows some of init() and corresponding destroy() events (this behavior is inconsistent - changes from one run to antother) and all preprocess() and prerender() events. Here is the log:


 -- original request to Page1
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page1@309a10
 init() TestIcefaces.Page1@309a10
 destroy() TestIcefaces.Page1@309a10
 
 -- button on Page1 clicked
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page1@196a21e
 button1_action() TestIcefaces.Page1@196a21e
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page2@1f3305e
 
 -- button on Page2 clicked
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page2@199f62e
 button1_action() TestIcefaces.Page2@199f62e
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page1@15bfd47
 
 -- button on Page1 clicked
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page1@17a7476
 button1_action() TestIcefaces.Page1@17a7476
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page2@3a3001
 
 -- button on Page2 clicked
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page2@1faa3c5
 button1_action() TestIcefaces.Page2@1faa3c5
 Constructor() TestIcefaces.Page1@15ebf0