Backing beans (@ManagedBean) or CDI Beans (@Named)?

Question

I\'ve just started reading through Core JavaServer Faces, 3rd Ed. and they say this (emphasis mine):

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I was using CDI in GlassFish 3.0.1, but to get it to work I had to import the Seam 3 framework (Weld). That worked pretty well.

In GlassFish 3.1 CDI stopped working, and the Seam Weld stopped working with it. I opened a bug on this but haven't seen it fixed yet. I had to convert all my code to using the javax.faces.* annotations but I plan to move back to CDI once they get it working.

I agree you should use CDI, but one issue that I haven't seen resolved yet is what to do with the @ViewScoped annotation. I have a lot of code that depends on it. It is not clear whether @ViewScoped works if you are not using @ManagedBean with it. If anyone can clarify this I would appreciate it.