I have a BaseBean with a @PostConstruct, and a bean extending it on which i would like to call another @PostConstruct. I have read several places where it said it was possible, however, it seems the @postConstruct on the extending class is called first (if the second is called at all). I then get a NPE on "context" because I'm assuming the super bean's PostConstruct has already been called.

Is this do-able? If so what am I doing wrong?

Base bean:

@ManagedBean
@RequestScoped
public class BaseBean {
@ManagedProperty(value = "#{contextBean}")
  private ContextBean contextBean;
  Context context;
@PostConstruct
public void setupContext() {
    context = getContextBean().getContext();
}

Extending bean:

@ManagedBean
@RequestScoped
public class SmartBoxSearchBean extends BaseBean {
@PostConstruct
public void setUp() {
    jsonHelper = context.get(SmartBoxJsonHelper.class);
}

Thanks, Yotam.

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