JSF 2.2 is stateless
The notion of being stateless is pretty confusing, because every application must maintain some kind of state (for example, for runtime variables). Generically speaking, a stateless application will follow the rule of a state per request, which means that a state's lifecycle is the same as the request-response lifecycle. This is an important issue in web applications, where we need to use session/application scope that, obviously, breaks down the notion of stateless.
Even so, one of the most popular features of JSF 2.2 consists of stateless views (and is actually available starting with Version 2.1.19). The idea behind this concept assumes that JSF will not save/restore the view state between requests and will prefer to recreate ...
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