Hooking Beans Based on Scope

Can we hook beans so that when they are about to go out of scope that we can name a callback function to be executed first?

Thanks

Not beans themselves, no. A bean is something that can (in theory) be a member of more than one collection, although obviously putting a bean in both the session and request collections is a little silly. What you can do, however, is set up a listener to the collection itself. For example, when the session is destroyed, a session listener is a clue that all the beans in the session are going out of scope, since the scope itself is being destroyed. Beans don't just evaporate, so that's usually sufficient unless you have code that's manually inserting/removing beans.

Thanks Tim. Is this the class I should be messing with:

http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionListener.html

Appears someone else was using it over here:

http://www.coderanch.com/t/210736/JSF/java/HttpSessionListener-JSF-App

Yep. It's popular for that kind of stuff.