Bean gets instantiated again in one request

[sanju dharma]

Hi,
I am new to JSF and going through very simple tutorial right now. I input my name on first page which i display it on next page. But surprisingly, the mapped bean gets destroyed and new bean instance is created in one request. So returned data from the bean on next page is always null. Here is very simple code.

inputname.jsp

   <h:form id="helloForm">
<h:outputText value="#{msg.prompt}" />
<h:inputText id="name" value="#{personBean.personName}" />
<h:commandButton action="greeting" value="#{msg.button_text}" />
</h:form>
 

greeting.jsp ( just to display name entered on the previous page )

 <h:outputText value="#{msg.greeting_text}" />
<h:outputText value="#{personBean.personName}" />
<h:outputText value="#{msg.sign}" />
   

[Tak Ng]

Open faces-config.xml and check if you have the option "<redirect/>" in the navigation-rule between these two pages. In the case that "<redirect/>" is present, please comment it and test again.

[Gabriel Claramunt]

Check also the scope of the bean, if is "request", you'll get a new one each time the page is loaded. If you set the scope to "session", it will keep the values until you finish your session.