Duplicate component id oddities

[lucab]

lately i have been receiving messages like this: java.lang.IllegalStateException: duplicate Id for a component
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I can't understand the real cause though, because i have provided an unique id for almost every component. For the remainder i trust on automatic ids (the ones starting with j_id). So i think this message should never appear.

This seems to happen only between pages that share a session scoped bean. I don't undestand why this could create a conflict. I tried restricting the scope of the bean to request and the duplicate id error message does not show up anymore. The bean is a backing bean linked to an HtmlPanelMenu.

So, what could be the cause for this duplicate id error?

[tmccobb]

I had the same problem, only after upgrading to 3.1.5GA. It was intermittent for no apparent reason, and only occurred with components within a nested outputPanel. So, I got rid of the nested panel and it went away.