Hi all,

I was reading the CDI 1.2 spec and couldn't clearly find the way serialization and scopes work. The only explicit sentence I found was :

1.3.1. JSF example

The @SessionScoped annotation defined in Section 2.4.1, “Built-in scope types” is a scope

type that specifies the lifecycle of instances of Login. Managed beans with this scope must be

serializable.

The Weld documentation is a bit more explicit :

5.2. Built-in scopes

Managed beans with scope @SessionScoped or @ConversationScoped must be serializable, since the container passivates the HTTP session from time to time.

And in the Java EE Tutorial we find (http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/gjbbk.html) :

Beans that use session, application, or conversation scope must be serializable, but beans that use request scope do not have to be serializable.

This even made be doubt about the application scope ?!?

Any way, could we clarify this in the CDI spec ?