Re: Does anyone know what the transient attribute is for?

[Manfred Geiler]

Wow, the transient attribute. A remainder of the very early days. The 
time before the first 1.0 spec draft was out. There was no client state 
saving behaviour specified in these days and myfaces had a sophisticated 
algorithm for minimizing the information that's needed to be saved 
between requests. "transient" was part of it. Anyone remembers the 
"minimzing state saving option". Sadly we had to remove it for spec 
compliancy.
Enough nostalgia!  ;-)
Yes, this attribute can savely be removed.

Manfred
Sean Schofield schrieb:
There is a "transient" attirbute being specified in the myfaces
distribution.  I can't really figure out what its being used for. 
From what I can tell its value is being added to the components
property map but its never being accessed.  Furthermore, this
attribute is incorrectly listed in the TLD of every *standard* jsf
component as well as the extended ones (see MYFACES-85).
Maybe some of the original myfaces folks remember who added this and
why?  I think we might want to consider dumping transient completely
if we can't prove its actually being used by anything.
sean