[jsr-314-open] ViewScoped severe bug or expected behavior?

Hi I ran into following issue while doing some testing on MyFaces and after testing it on Mojarra I noticed that Mojarra behaves the same. So I am not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior. Hence I am posting it here. Following usecase. a Page with a managed bean as page controller which is ViewScoped. Now the page keeps some data which is serialized per definition on the scope. An action is triggered from the page which then issues an implicit navigation case onto itself. Now what happens on both implementations is, that the ViewScoped bean is dropped and the data is lost. This is easily reproducable with the case in the attachments. As you can see the value is initially set to another value by the postConstruct and then once the action is triggered it is reset to the initial value, although it should have been restored to the last value which was present before issuing the action onto itself. I could reproduce this behavior on MyFaces 2.0.3 and on Mojarra. Any ideas if this is a bug or expected behavior? Because from a logical point of view a nav case should not retire the view scope if it hits the same page again no matter if a redirect is in between if it is implicit or explicit or if it is just a null restore case. Werner