Invoke method just before session expires

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My webapp has users who login. There is a timeout. Before the session expires, I would like to execute a method to cleanup some locks.

I've implemented a sessionListener but once I reach public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent event) the session is already gone and I need some data from it, so I would like to execute a method (which needs the session alive and be able to access FacesConfig.getCurrentInstance()) before the session is actually expired.

How can I do that? Any ideas? This is my Session Listener:

public class MySessionListener implements HttpSessionListener {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MySessionListener.class);

    public MySessionListener() {

    }

    public void sessionCreated(HttpSessionEvent event) {
        log.debug("Current Session created : "
              + event.getSession().getId()+ " at "+ new Date());
    }

    public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent event) {
        // get the destroying session...

        HttpSession session = event.getSession();
        prepareLogoutInfoAndLogoutActiveUser(session);

        log.debug("Current Session destroyed :"
              + session.getId()+ " Logging out user...");

        /*
         * nobody can reach user data after this point because 
         * session is invalidated already.
         * So, get the user data from session and save its 
         * logout information before losing it.
         * User's redirection to the timeout page will be 
         * handled by the SessionTimeoutFilter.
         */

         // Only if needed
    }

    /**
     * Clean your logout operations.
     */
    public void prepareLogoutInfoAndLogoutActiveUser(HttpSession httpSession) {
        UserBean user = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().evaluateExpressionGet(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(), "#{user}", UserBean.class);
        LockBean lock = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().evaluateExpressionGet(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(), "#{lock}", LockBean.class);
        lock.unlock(user.getUsername());
        log.info("Unlocked examination for user: "+user.getUsername());
    }
}

But I'm getting NullPointerException at FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication() because either getCurrentInstance is null or getApplication returns null

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