toolBar disappearing in IE (6 and 7)

[nico.ben]

Hi,
I use richfaces 3.3.0 (inside seam.2.1.2.CR1) to generate dinamically some menu as the user logs in.
In firefox my menus (dropdown) are well displayed and work greatly.
In IE (6 and 7) sometimes the refreshed page doesn't display the menu, and sometimes displayes everything.

<rich:toolBarGroup>
 <a:form>
 <rich:toolBar binding="#{menuToolBar.menu}" rendered="#{identity.loggedIn}" />
 </a:form>
 </rich:toolBarGroup>

Where menuToolBar is defined in:

@Name("menuToolBar")
@Scope(ScopeType.EVENT)
public class MenuToolBar {

 private HtmlToolBar menu;

 public HtmlToolBar getMenu() {
 LoginInfo loginInfo = (LoginInfo) Component.getInstance(LoginInfo.class);
 return loginInfo.getToolBar();
 }

 public void setMenu(HtmlToolBar bar) {
 this.menu = bar;
 }
}

Any suggestions, please?

[nbelaevski]

Hello,

How does LoginInfo look like?

[nico.ben]

Hi,
LoginInfo is a session bean containing all info about the user and the structure of menus he/she can see.

@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
@Name("loginInfo")
public class LoginInfo implements Serializable {
 [...]
 @In(create=true, required=true)
 private MenusManager menusManager;

 private HtmlToolBar toolBar;

 [...]
 public HtmlToolBar getToolBar() {
 if (toolBar==null) {
 toolBar = new HtmlToolBar();
 toolBar.setId("to_" + menuCounter++);
 }
 if (isLoggedIn()) {
 if (!toolBarInitialized) {
 initToolbar(toolBar);
 toolBarInitialized = true;
 }
 }
 return toolBar;
 }

 public void setToolBar(HtmlToolBar toolBar) {
 this.toolBar = toolBar;
 }

private void initToolbar(HtmlToolBar toolbar){


 }

}

The ScopeType.EVENT is because of:
http://docs.jboss.com/seam/2.1.1.GA/reference/en-US/html_single/#d0e6379

Best regards,
Nicola

[nbelaevski]

Hello Nicola,

Components should not be bound to session-scoped beans. Please change this and try. Also does this problem reproduce if you remove loggedIn checks?

[nico.ben]

Hi,
I tried to remove the loggedIn check. No change.

But the disappearing of the menu in IE is an event that happens suddenly, sometime, maybe after a lot of minutes after charging different pages.

About the session-scoped beans, everything works ok under firefox anyway.
It must be something IE-related.

Anyway it's difficult to reproduce it.

Regards,
Nico

[nbelaevski]

Even if this works in FF, it's not correct to bind components to session-scoped beans.