Must command link parameter variable SESSION Scope??

Question

I add a EJB Session Bean Method to my page which returns an array:
public Province[] getProvinces();
When you place the Session Bean to the page, it automatically creates a REQUEST SCOPE VARIABLE called "provinceRemoteGetProvincesResultBean" in the type of Province array. And it automatically creates a Data Table to display the results.
Up to this point every thing's cool!! I can call the method properly, get the results and display without any problem.
However when I try to create a COMMAND LINK to one of the columns of the TABLE (e.g. Province has a NAME column) I have a problem:
<h:commandLink styleClass="commandLink" id="lnkName" action="#{pc_ProvinceManagement.doLnkNameAction}">
<h:outputText id="otxName" value="#{varprovinceRemoteGetProvincesResultBean.name}" styleClass="outputText">
</h:outputText>
<f:param name="provinceId" value="#varprovinceRemoteGetProvincesResultBean.id}"></f:param>
</h:commandLink>
The problem is that this "provinceRemoteGetProvincesResultBean" is REQUEST scope and Command Link does not work with REQUEST Scope variables!!!
I had similar examples before, when I used the command link with a REQUEST SCOPE variable, it didn't work. When I use it with a SESSION Scope variable it works.
In this particular case, I cannot make the Province[] a SESSION SCOPE variable, because it's not a class!!! Therefore I need to create a new class containing a Province[] and make that class a SESSION SCOPE variable, which makes things quite complicated!!
IS IT TRUE THAT COMMAND LINK PARAMETERS MUST BE SESSION SCOPE?????

Answer 1

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