I'm not able to get preRenderView to work, but I can get preRenderComponent to work. I'm using Mojarra 2.0.2 on GlassFish 3.0.1 with Netbeans 6.9. The suggestion feature of the
IDE tells me that the "type" attribute of the f:event tag can only be one of:
preValidate
PostValidate
preRenderComponent
postAddToView
This related post suggest that preRenderView should be available:
duplicate-call-preRenderView-event