[Actionframework-users] processing order suggestion

[Jakub C. <bla...@cb...>]

Hello AS users!

In my project I am using O/R mapping tool (Hibernate). I am trying to use
"long sessions" which means I keep the Hibernate session stored inside AS
component with 'session' persistence. This is working fine but I want to
disconnect from DB after each request and reconnect before the next one (for
better scalability).

So I created:

<pre-invoke>connect to DB</pre-invoke>

and

<post-invoke>disconnect from DB</post-invoke>

This is OK but the problem is, that connection is closed BEFORE the view is
rendered. Hibernate uses so-called LAZY INIT, which means, that id doesn't
load whole object hierarchy at once, but lazily when children objects are
needed. And this exactly happens here. I call loadFamily() in action method
and the template then uses $family.getKids() etc.... But these calls need
the DB connection to be alive.

So I am asking. Is there an elegant solution to call method after the view
is rendered? I know that <template> can include <invoke> but this is called
before rendering.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Greetings
Jakub Cerny