Session backing beans and multiple navigator windows sharing session

Question

Hi let's suppose i have a web and page1, page2 and page3 that should share the backingbean. Normal navigation goes from page 1 to page 2 to page 3.
I do not want a backing bean per page because i need to share data between my pages. The immediate solution is to put this bean in session context and use it in each page. But this has severe drawbacks:
- The backing bean is the same each time I access any page, and I want a new bb to be used each time the user requests for page 1
- When a user has more than one navigator window sharing session, and on each window he is navigating through pages 1 to 3, there can be a big mess because he is accessing to the same bb from both windows.
So I would like to find a solution that permit the user to navigate from both windows as if the windows had its own session.
Any hint?
Thnx

Answer 1

I have a similar problem as described .
I hava one window with enterable fields and when you click on a button it opens another window .Both forms are backed by the same bean .since both forms are nearly the same .
The bean is a managed bean in request scope .
when I fill in the first window with values and click on the link it opens the second but the first windows elements and now empty .
Even though it is in Request scope when the second window is being loaded the bean is re-initialized . I would expect a new intance of this bean to be created for the second window .
This is how I am calling the second window .
<h:commandButton id="newRequestItem" action="#{requestItem.createNewRequestItem}" rendered="#{createActivationRequest.displayCreateLinks}" onclick="openNewPage('NewRequestItem.jsp');"
image="images/show_all.gif" title="new request">
<h:outputText value="new request" styleClass="toolbar-command"></h:outputText>
</h:commandButton>
function openNewPage(url)
     aqcbwin= window.open(url, "newRequestItem","toolbar=no, scrollbars=1");
aqcbwin.moveTo(50, 50);
target="_new";
//target="_blank";
aqcbwin.focus();
any ideas to what is wrong and how I can correct this .
Thanks for your help .
Mark