@Viewscoped bean is not destroyed when navigate to another page

Question

I'm using @Viewscoped beans in a JSF 2.1 project. The strange thing is that when I first get a page the bean is clearly initialized with all the initial parameters. But when I navigate away, to another page, even if I close the browser tab where te app is open the bean does not die. When I go back to the page that use this bean the values are the same that were modified during the utilization of this page. And more, if I open another browser like IE or Chrome, the values are still there too!! Is behaving like a sessionscoped. Or somekind of inmortal bean , je.

The bean is annotated like this.

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;

@Controller
@ManagedBean
@ViewScoped

public class MyBean {
  //the rest of the code.
}

Why this is happen? Could be springframework annotation the cause of the problem?

Answer 1

I found the solution. The problem was my spring annotation in the bean. I use @Controller from Spring Framework. This annotation create a Singleton, so my backing bean, even it has @ManagedBean and @ViewScoped, was created only once, and was never destroyed a re-created in every view. I deleted @Controller and replace @Autowired for @ManagedProperty for the injection and now everything works as expected.

The answer in this a question help to figure out

Answer 2

Define your Bean using this anotations

@ViewScoped
public @Named class MyBean

@PreDestroy works well.