[jsr-314-open-mirror] [jsr-314-open] REMOVED: Re: [Mojarra-1512-FacesServlet.service] PROPOSAL

[Ed Burns]

>>>>> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:48:02 -0700, Blake Sullivan <blake.sullivan at oracle.com> said:

B>   I haven't checked, but why does Faces have to do anything special to 
B> handles Session-scoped beans for fail-over?  Isn't the application 
B> server going to handle this anyway?  And if there is a Serialization 
B> failure, isn't the user pretty much hosed at this point?  In this case, 
B> if a fail-over occurred the user would at best lose state.  Also, this 
B> kind of error is almost certainly an application coding error and there 
B> is nothing that the appliction listener can really do that is helpful at 
B> this point.  If you really feel like publishing the event, how bad would 
B> it be to create a one shot FacesContext just for delivering the event 
B> and then release it immediately after?

Blake has given a litany of compelling reasons for not doing this as a
spec issue.

Therefore, I'm removing this from consideration for 2.1.

Sorry for the wasted time.

Ed

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