JSF 1.2: How to keep request scoped managed bean alive across postbacks on same view?

Question

Is it possible to keep a request scoped bean alive across postbacks on the same page?

The general problem is, as the bean gets trashed on end of request and recreat

Answer 1

Not really, unless you store the Bean somewhere e.g. a Map in application scope, to retrieve it later.

Why not just make it Session scoped? This is what Session scope is there for, so multiple Requests during the same Session can hit the same state.