[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-5586) @PreDestroy not called on view scoped managed bean

[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5586?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.s... ] Stan Silvert commented on AS7-5586: ----------------------------------- I'm afraid you won't like this answer, but this is working as per spec. I misread Ed Burn's comments before. @PreDestroy is actually not called on session invalidation for @ViewScoped beans. That's what the spec change is asking for. Here is the spec request to change this in JSF 2.2: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-905 So this does work if you navigate to another view via postback. And that's the only condition on which a @PreDestroy is actually called. It has to go through the NavigtionHandler and call FacesContext.setViewRoot(). To see it working, just add this to the view scoped bean: {code} public String goHome() { System.out.println("... going back to index.xhtml ..."); return "index"; } {code} And add a form and a submit button to indexView.xhtml: {code:xml} <f:view> <h:form> blah blah blah <h:commandButton value="GoTo request-scoped test" action="#{injectionBeanView.goHome}"/> </h:form> </f:view> {code} So if you hit the button to go back to index.xhtml then @PreDestroy will get called. To see this, I just put a System.out.println() in my @PreDestroy method. Unfortunately, all this makes ViewScoped beans a bad choice if you need to release resources. You can't guarantee that the view will be ended through normal navigation. Hopefully, this will indeed be fixed in JSF 2.2. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira