Is there a way to get the current instance of a PhaseListener via el context or application context?
You can get the phase listeners attached to the UIViewRoot using <f:phaseListener> tag on a page like this:
List<PhaseListener> phaseListeners = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().getPhaseListeners();
It returns a list of the PhaseListener instances attached to this UIViewRoot instance.
If you want to get all the global phase listeners registered in a faces-config.xml file you can get them from the LifeCycle instance like this:
FacesContextFactory contextFactory = (FacesContextFactory)FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.FACES_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
LifecycleFactory lifecycleFactory = (LifecycleFactory)FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.LIFECYCLE_FACTORY);
Iterator<String> lifecycleIds = lifecycleFactory.getLifecycleIds();
while (lifecycleIds.hasNext()) {
String lifecycleId = lifecycleIds.next();
Lifecycle lifecycle = lifecycleFactory.getLifecycle(lifecycleId);
PhaseListener[] phaseListeners= lifecycle.getPhaseListeners();
}