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Asked: 2026-05-23T12:04:06+00:00

I’ve got two instances of a SessionScoped CDI bean for the same session. I

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I’ve got two instances of a SessionScoped CDI bean for the same session. I was under the impression that there would be one instance generated for me by CDI, but it generated two. Am I misunderstanding how CDI works, or did I find a bug?

Here is the bean code:

package org.mycompany.myproject.session;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.inject.Named;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

@Named @SessionScoped public class MyBean implements Serializable {
    private String myField = null;

    public MyBean() {
        System.out.println("MyBean constructor called");

        FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
        HttpSession session = (HttpSession)fc.getExternalContext().getSession(false);
        String sessionId = session.getId();
        System.out.println("Session ID: " + sessionId);
    }

    public String getMyField() {
        return myField;
    }

    public void setMyField(String myField) {
        this.myField = myField;
    }
}

Here is the Facelet code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
  xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
<f:view contentType="text/html" encoding="UTF-8">
    <h:head>
        <title>Test</title>
    </h:head>
    <h:body>
        <h:form id="form">
            <h:inputText value="#{myBean.myField}"/>
            <h:commandButton value="Submit"/>
        </h:form>
    </h:body>
</f:view>
</html>

Here is the output from deployment and navigating to page:

INFO: Loading application org.mycompany_myproject_war_1.0-SNAPSHOT at /myproject
INFO: org.mycompany_myproject_war_1.0-SNAPSHOT was successfully deployed in 8,237 milliseconds.
INFO: MyBean constructor called
INFO: Session ID: 175355b0e10fe1d0778238bf4634
INFO: MyBean constructor called
INFO: Session ID: 175355b0e10fe1d0778238bf4634

Using GlassFish 3.0.1

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ryan, as covener already wrote, the constructor will also get called for each and every proxy for that bean. This is a standard behaviour of all proxy mechanisms which provide not only interface-proxying (like java.lang.reflect.proxy stuff) but real class-proxying.

    Also imagine that the ct will also be called for each and every serialization. So if you work on a heavily load balanced cluster, you will see this lots of times. So please use @PostConstruct for beans in general.

    LieGrue,
    strub

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