However, having said that I think it is VERY important that the JSF framework be "cluster friendly", which means supporting session replication. Large enterprise applications absolutely require that the presentation tier be supported by a cluster of JSP servers.
Anyone see a reason to _not_ make them Serializable? Langley -----Original Message----- From: Heath Borders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:54 AM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: Anyone know why the DataModels aren't Serializable? I don't know why they're not serializable, but unless you have session replication, or you're doing client-side state saving, my guess is that a JSF application will not be able to survive a restart. On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:46:52 -0600, Jonathan Eric Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know why the JSF DataModels aren't Serializable? Can the state > of a JSF application survive a restart of the Servlet container? Normally, > I've always made my beans Serializable, but, now I'm not able to do so since > I'm making use of DataModels which aren't Serializable. > > Jon > > -- -Heath Borders-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED]

