Are ViewScoped beans serialized to the page when client state saving is turned on?

Question

We have client state saving turned on and use ViewScoped backing beans. When client state saving is turned on and we are using a ViewScoped bean, is the ViewScoped bean serialzi

Answer 1

Please note that the answer by BalusC is not true for recent versions of JSF: for recent versions the data of the javax.faces.view.ViewScoped beans is kept on the server. See JAVASERVERFACES-3090