RichFaces 3.3.3.Final <rich:panelMenu> question

[fakeboy]

Hi everyone,

I am using JSF 1.2, MyFaces 1.2.8, RichFaces 3.3.3.Final.

I would like to ask about panelMenu state holding between two page navigation.

Example:

I have two pages Page1 and Page2. And menu looks like:

MenuGroup1

    Page1

MenuGroup2

    Page2

Now for example I am on index page and menu is collapsed and looks like:

MenuGroup1

MenuGroup2

So I expand MenuGroup2 because I want to go to Page2 which is located under MenuGroup2.

Menu before click to Page2 looks like:

MenuGroup1

MenuGroup2

    Page2

So now I will clik on Page2 and Page2 will be rendered.

But problem si that menu on Page2 is collpased like on index page and looks like:

MenuGroup1

MenuGroup2

But I want to hold state in menu and it should looks like:

MenuGroup1

MenuGroup2

    Page2 (bold means selected)

I can achieve this beahavior only with binding panelMenu component to session scopead backing bean, but JSF depricate component binding to session scoped beans. I also have time to time some strange exceptions like DuplicateIdExcp, NoSuchElement excp, somethimes menu dissapear and so on. When I remove binding everything works fine, but I have problem with state holding.

Please, Can someone help me solve this problem.

I use <rich:panelMenu> like this

<h:form id="nav_form" styleClass="menu-panel">

<rich:panelMenu id="nav_menu" height="360px" mode="ajax"

                      expandSingle="true"

                      styleClass="Detail" expandMode="ajax" iconItem="none"

                      iconItemPosition="left" iconGroupTopPosition="right"

                      iconExpandedTopGroup="triangleDown" iconCollapsedTopGroup="triangle">

               <rich:panelMenuGroup id="xxx1" rendered="#{xxx}"

                             label="#{xxx}">

                         <rich:panelMenuItem id="xxx2"

                              rendered="#{xxx}"

                              label="#{xxx}"

                              action="#{xxx}">

...

</h:form>