How to have multiple windows of same app under JSF 1.1

Question

I know this has been addressed in JSF 1.2, but does anyone have a good solution in JSF 1.1 concerning how to allow multiple application instances to be opened in different browser windows at the same time? I work for a large financial services company and we have multiple instances of the same application up when working with more than one customer or account at the same time.
We�ve figured out a way to use a custom variable resolver and property resolver to provide an application instance scope that works with managed beans; however, we are struggling with how to handle the JSF component tree. We can replace the StateManager or ViewManager, but we will be running under a vendor implementation of JSF and do not want to outright replace their implementation. We wanted to simply define our own manager, decorate the viewId with additional information, and then pass it on to the default manager. The big issue is that while the restoreView methods take the viewId, the writeState methods do not. This seems like a pretty big show stopper to us. If we have to wait until JSF 1.2, it will be a long wait. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Answer 1

The way I'm thinking of doing this is to use nested beans. So for example, I'd have an "AccountBean" written as a JSF managed bean, but this is not what I'd declare in faces-config. Instead, I'd have an "AccountMgr":
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>acctMgr</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>AccountManager</managed-bean-class>
</managed-bean>AccountManager would have a map of AccountBean objects. In my pages, I'd reference the acctMgr:
#{acctMgr.accts[acctEditor.acctId].firstName}If anyone has a better idea, I'd love to hear about it.