Do CDI Events observed across session scoped JSF backing beans

Question

I\'m wondering if it is possible to observe a CDI event with multiple JSF 2.0 session scoped backing beans. I thought that I could push event/data to multiple sessions by ob

Answer 1

First, you'd better specify the type of the event:

@Inject
private Event<EventObj> events;

Apart from that there is no indication in the spec that would limit the bean instances on which the observer method is invoked. I'd file an issue about this (in the bugtracker of the implementation you are using. Perhaps Weld?)

Answer 2

I've found that all registered observers are fired.

Most notably if I have an observer on a Conversation Scoped bean and that bean is not active in the current Conversation then, when the event is fired, a new instance is created specially to receive it!