This is a followup question to some questions on stackoverflow.com:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/2842401/396732
http://stackoverflow.com/q/2797231/396732
However, we're using Mojarra 2.1.22 but our Seam 3 CDI @ViewScoped annotated beans always become reconstructed, that is the method annotated with @PostConstruct is executed and we get an new bean on every AJAX request.
All I keep hearing for a few months (it's February 2014 now) is that Mojarra 2.1.18+ has many of these bugs fixed and that the view-scoped bean should survive AJAX requests when the view is using this bean from a <c:forEach>.
Here are a few bugs:
https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES-1665
https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-928 (see last comment by dwightd)
https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-787
https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES-2688
The only difference to the examples on SO etc. is that we're using Seam 3 CDI @ViewScoped (+ @Named) and not "native" JSF @ViewScoped (+ @ManagedBean).
Is Seam 3 Faces (3.1 Final) the reason why it isn't working? Is this a Seam 3 issue at all? How can we find out? It's not easy to port the current functionality to a test case...
Thanks
Karsten