If it's like the RI, the reasoning is to accommodate the back button issue with server-side state saving. It would be wrong to assume/associate a single state with a page given multiple windows and back button use. Using a sequence adds a level of uniqueness to state which is equal to 'page + sequence id'.
> >I've been noticing in my output a jsf_sequence hidden form field that >increments on what seems to be each request. What's the reason for such an >incrementing hidden field? > >Does it have something to do with this "back button issue"? If so, how? > >I tried using a debugger but quickly got overwhelmed... :( >-- >View this message in context: >http://www.nabble.com/Reason-behind-jsf_sequence--tf2860440.html#a7992103 >Sent from the My Faces - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
