need a solution, commandbutton triggers a session start

[liudan2005]

I've been having this problem for a long time and hope I can find a good solution here.

I have a lot of pages that having a couple of inputTexts and a commandButton. When commandButton is clicked, it invokes a session scoped component. Everything works fine if user clicks the button before session times out. However, if session is timed out, user would have to refresh the page and re-enter the data before click the button.

I want the user being able to invoke our session scoped component and submit data no matter an active session exists or not. a typical scenario would be a search page(like google's homepage) or a login page, where user enters our website hours ago, but decide to do something hours later.

[hstang]

Don't use a session?

[liudan2005]

I've tried changing my component to @Stateless, but it doesn't help. my method is not even invoked.

[dilator]

Can you show the code for your bean + jsf?

[liudan2005]

my ejb.

@Stateless
@Name("myBean")
public class MyBean implements MyBeanInterface{

 @In(create=true)
 MyState myState;

public String search(){
 return doSearch(myState.getSearchString());

}

}

my page

<h:inputText value="#{myState.searchString}" />
<h:commandButton action="#{myBean.search}" value="Search Now" />

If I open the page and wait until session times out. if I click on "Search Now", myBean.search is not invoked.

[bulloncito]

... try

@Begin(join=true)
public String search(){
 return doSearch(myState.getSearchString());

}

... to get a working conversation, that might get the MyState bean initialized. ... just an idea.

[liudan2005]

No, it doesn't work. @Begin is used for conversation scoped component.