The
JSF request/response lifecycle isn't designed for that. However, if all you wanted to to was invoke an action method from another action method, just have the first one do a simple
Java call.
The only restriction is that the managed beans will have the context of the original request..
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.