Everything you say sounds like a misconfiguration of the load balancer to
me. I would try running it outside the load balancer and see if you can
reproduce the problem, then if it still occurs, you could look elsewhere.
In our app, we have multiple forms on the page, and in client state saving
the state is written to the response for each form so our simple pages ended
up being a 2MB download for the client, so we went to server. We never had
any problem losing state with either configuration.
If you can reproduce it reliably only on certain pages, then faces-config
could be the problem, but as I said, I would look at the load balancer first
given your symptoms.
Joel
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:57 AM, <webtier_at_javadesktop.org> wrote:
> We are having with a JSF application and it's navigation. On occassion the
> when hitting the next button the application will return to the starting
> page. It is as if session data has been lost so the application thinks the
> user is entering the first time. This is a random occurence and happens on
> IE, Firefox and Opera.
>
> The app is running on glassfish (proxied and load balanced).
>
> We are not sure how to diagnose the issue. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> There is some debate amongst the developers whether
> javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD should be set to "client" (the netbeans
> default setting) or "server". I have suggested it be changed to "server" to
> see if that solves the problem (an easy change, but the main developer of
> the application wants to know what "best practice" is before he makes the
> change).
>
> Another developer thinks the navigation rules in the faces-config.xml
> should be altered.
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
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