[MyFaces 2] Impact of view scope

[Michael Kurz]

Hi,

I just stumbled upon an issue regarding view scope I have not noticed 
before. As the view scope map is stored in the view root it takes part 
in state saving. My problem is this: I have a backing bean in view scope 
with an application scoped bean injected by the managed bean creation 
facility. As MyFaces serializes the state by default the bean is 
serialized and deserialized on postback even with server side state 
saving. This also means that the application scoped bean is serialized 
and deserialized which will create a new instance of this bean which 
should be unique.

I can handle this with turning off serialization for server state saving 
or with making the property transient and loading it again in 
readObject(), but is this really handy for end users? But then on the 
other hand I guess this is exactly the expected behavior. Should/could 
we do something about that?

Another question in this context: why is serialization and compression 
on server state enabled by default?

regards
Michael