How to keep pageDef bound inputs?

Question

Hi all
Its me again ;-) Now i have a very trivial problem. I have two jspx-pages (page A and page B). On page A i have an inputText, bound to an attributeValue, which is bound to a variable in the pageDef of this page. When i click the submit-button, i do something with the input of this inputText, before i went to page B. Now i went back to page A and the inputText is empty.
Is it possible, to keep the previous input? I can build a Bean stored in the session context to bind this inputText, but i think its a bit oversized for a simple String.
PageDef of page A
<executables>
  <variableIterator>
    <variable Type="java.lang.String"
              Name="relationshipsVar"
              IsQueriable="false"/>
  </variableIterator>
</executables>
<bindings>
  <attributeValues id="relationships" IterBinding="variables">
    <AttrNames>
      <Item Value="relationshipsVar"/>
    </AttrNames>
  </attributeValues>
</bindings>pageA.jspx
<af:inputText value="#{bindings.relationships.inputValue}"
              required="#{bindings.relationships.mandatory}"
              columns="#{bindings.relationships.displayWidth}"
              id="inputText2" inlineStyle="width:500px;">
  <af:validator binding="#{bindings.relationships.validator}"/>
</af:inputText>Thanks and regards
Majo

Answer 1

Majo,
As per my understanding, when you come back to PageA(some page) all bindings and iterators will be initialized, at that time the value in variable iterator will be reset. Attributes pointing to some view object iterator holds the data becasue that data will be stored in view object when navigated to some other page or request is submitted and when we come back to same page again it gets back the data from the view object and show it in the page but it is not the case with variable iterator(which just stores the data in pagedefinition and loose the value when we refresh the page).
Sireesha