Hi,
You will to excuse me for this question, I have always worked with request scope beans: I have a screen in which details are being edited. Now, I have to add a button near one of the drop downs that will take me to a new screen, allowing me to create a new object and get back to the previous screen. Of course I will have to save the data in the first screen when moving to the second one and when returning data should be restored. So I thought setting my entity bean (hibernate pojo) as a session bean, allowing me to store the state when moving from one screen to another. My question is: what mechanism can I use in order to initialize the entity bean. When going to the "create new object" screen I will want to "remember" the data, but when coming to the screen from some other place I will want the object to be either initialize, or to contain the data of a loaded object. I also don't want to start calculating from which screen or link I am coming to this screen in order to decide in which cases I have to initialize the object and in which not. Is there a neat way of doing it? Btw, I can't use Seam or some framework currently on this project. Thanks, Guy.
