Caching duration of Cached Rowsets

Question

There are four contexts usable to place cached rowset. I undersand, that in Application scope, data are loaded amd persisted to application end. Session looks same, but data chaching ends at end of session, right?
What I dont understand is when data expires, if I place datasource directly to scope of my class and what is RequestBean role in this.
My practical problem is that I need to cache results only for limited time duration (5 minutes for example)
Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Data is cached in a rowset until you refresh it or commit changes, etc.
The scope of the beans is as follows:
The Application Bean is valid during the lifetime of the web app.
The Session Bean is valid during the user's session, which is set by the application server. It is possible that it may be persisted by the application server after some time limit of inactivity. Therefore, any properties on a SessionBean should implement the Serializable interface or be declared transient.
The Page Bean lasts for the time of an HTTP request and response cycle.
The Request Bean lasts as long as two subsequent Page Beans' request / response cycles. They are used to pass data between two pages. Data stored in properties of a Request Bean, outlive the form submission of the first page, and last through to the destruction of the second page.