Outjection and Scope

[cryptonaut]

I'm using a Stateless bean to retrieve a List of entities from a database. If I annotate the List as @Out(scope=ScopeType.SESSION) it works. (APPLICATION scope also works). However, putting the list into any other scope, including EVENT or CONVERSATION renders it invisible to the JSF facelet where I'm sending it. (Code fragment is below). What am I missing?

@Name("register")
@Stateless
public class RegisterOfficer implements Register ....

// doesn't work:
// @Out(value="officers",scope=ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
// private List officers;

// works fine:
@Out(value="officers",scope=ScopeType.SESSION)
private List officers;

public String show() {
officers = em.createQuery("from Officer").getResultList();
return "show";
}

...
}

[dhinojosa]

Try changing it to stateful. I don't think this bean is around long enough to get that list being stateless.

[cryptonaut]

Stateless, Stateful, it doesn't matter.

Actually, minutes before you posted your remarks I found the magic incantation:

use the @Factory annotation on method that retrieves the list:

@Factory
public String show() {
...


Then you can use any Scope.