I am quite confused with the view scope. I thought it could survive a JSF navigation to another page (no redirect, obviously), but it doesn\'t. So what\'s the advantage to u
Maybe you are looking for the FlowScoped bean:
Faces Flows
The Faces Flows feature of JavaServer Faces technology allows you to create a set of pages with a scope, FlowScoped, that is greater than request scope but less than session scope. For example, you might want to create a series of pages for the checkout process in an online store. You could create a set of self-contained pages that could be transferred from one store to another as needed.