What does it take for a POJO to promote a conv. to long-runn

[ericjava]

Let's say I have a POJO like this:

@Name("item") public class Item {
//
}

What exactly do I need to put on that POJO to have it promote a conversation to a long-running conversation, and install itself in that conversation? It seems like it's possible to do this but I'm never completely sure what the minimum steps are for this to happen, or if it's even possible for a POJO to be a member of a long-running conversation. I've spent the evening trying various things to get this to happen, and no success, but strangely, there are examples in the Seam examples directory that seem to be POJOs, and that have @Begin annotations on them. Any reason for this?

[pmuir]

You need a to call a method annotated with @Begin. POJOs are event scoped by default, so also add an @Scope(CONVERSATION).

[ericjava]

I found out what was messing me up. I had a page with a4j:mediaOutput. The method that was creating the media output was driving me crazy because it was ignoring the conversation! Well, of course it was, because conversations don't propagate "through" a mediaOutput. I think that may be a bug / deficiency in a4j:mediaOutput. Anyway, workaround is simple. Provide what you want in the mediaOutput value="" attribute.

It's obvious now that I see it, but it really frustrated me for a bit.

[pmuir]

Please file an issue in the RichFaces jira about this.

[ericjava]

Will do, after I solidly confirm it with a test case.