Session scope managed bean is not instantiating?

Question

We have the need to use a session bean (rather than pageFlowScope) in our application.  But it looks like the session beans are not being instantiated at run time like other beans are.  I created a simple test case to verify.  One bean, named "MySessionBean", defined in the task flow as Session scope, then referenced in a view with an input text box, value:  #{sessionScope.MySessionBean.value1}. When I run the application,  I just get PropertyNotFoundException, Target Unreachable, 'MySessionBean' returned null.
If I simply change the bean to use pageFlowScope, everything works fine.   I have debug code in the bean constructor, and it never gets called.   Is there some other step I am missing to have ADF instantiate the session bean?

Answer 1

No luck, I tried it in both adfc-config.xml, and faces-config.xml.  I also tried moving the call to my view, from my bounded taskflow, into the adfc-config unbounded task flow, and then I ran that instead.  Still got the same error.    Here is my code from the the last round of tests with the view called in the main adfc-config.xml unbounded taskflow:
adfc-config.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<adfc-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/controller" version="1.2">
      <view id="testView">
            <page>/testView.jspx</page>
      </view>
      <managed-bean id="__2">
      <managed-bean-name id="__5">MySessionBean</managed-bean-name>
      <managed-bean-class id="__4">test.MySessionBean</managed-bean-class>
      <managed-bean-scope id="__3">session</managed-bean-scope>
    </managed-bean>
</adfc-config>
testView.jspx:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.1"
          xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
          xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
          xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich">
  <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
  <f:view>
    <af:document id="d1">
      <af:form id="f1">
        <af:inputText label="Label 1" id="it1"
                      value="#{sessionScope.MySessionBean.value1}"/>
      </af:form>
    </af:document>
  </f:view>
</jsp:root>
MySessionBean.java:
package test;
public class MySessionBean {
    private String value1="Hello World";
    public MySessionBean() {
        super();
    public void setValue1(String value1) {
        this.value1 = value1;
    public String getValue1() {
        return value1;