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AJAX pages with CDI beans and @ConversationScoped

I'm interested What is the proper way to use JSF pages with AJAX when I use CDI. I tested to configure the CDI beans with @SessionScoped but I found that there is a problem with AJAX.

Is it proper to use AJAX with CDI beans configured with @ConversationScoped?

And I found that I have to put conversation.begin(); into the Bean constructor and conversation.end(); into Java method which must be when the session is completed. Can I somehow do this automatically?

P.S Can I use this code to automatically free the resource when the user closes the page?

@Remove
public void finishIt(){
     conversation.end();
}
Solution

  • And I found that I have to put conversation.begin(); into the Bean constructor and conversation.end(); into Java method which must be when the session is completed.

    That's correct. See also among others How to replace @ManagedBean / @ViewScope by CDI in JSF 2.0/2.1 for a concrete code example.

    Can I somehow do this automatically?

    If you want a bean which must live as long as you're postbacking on a single view, then upgrade to at least JSF 2.2. It provides a CDI compatible @ViewScoped out the box.

    If you however want a bean which must live as long as you reference it in a view, regardless of the view you're sitting in, then consider using @ViewAccessScoped of DeltaSpike instead. Once you navigate to a view which doesn't reference the bean anywhere, it will be trashed.

    See also: