Thanks Scott, I understand your explanation...but wouldn't the framework recreate the view & its component tree if the view isn't there (when we resubmit the pervious page)?
Thanks in advance. Scott O'Bryan wrote: > > This one is easy but not very intuitive. Lets say you navigate from one > page to another and then hit the back button. When you then try to > resubmit the previous page, there is no view state corresponding to the > token unless you've saved more then one. > > This setting allows you to configure how many different tokens are > active at any given time.. > > Scott > > hbMailingList wrote: >> Hello again :-) >> >> I'd really like to understand this setting, because I'm worried that I'm >> missing something fundemental. >> >> I guess another way I can ask the question is: >> - why/when would it be necessary to have more than one view in the >> session? >> >> Thanks in adv. >> >> hbMailingList wrote: >> >>> Hello, I’m thinking of setting javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD to >>> server... >>> >>> I’m wondering what is the right number for NUMBER_OF_VIEWS_IN_SESSION? >>> I'm guessing that the default is 20, and I’m wondering why would I want >>> to >>> have more than 1 view in the session? >>> >>> For example, let’s say I have 5 pages…5 views. The user can see only >>> one >>> view at a time. So when she moves from page 1 to page 2, why would I >>> need >>> the view for page 1, in the session? Doesn’t the framework recreate >>> the >>> view & its component tree once she visits page 1 again? >>> >>> My understanding was that if the user navigates to a page and it is not >>> a >>> post-back the view is created from scratch. >>> >>> I think I’ve misunderstood something, could you please provide me with >>> some examples, in which I’d need more than one view in the session. >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/NUMBER_OF_VIEWS_IN_SESSION-tp17364360p17411567.html Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

