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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Answer 1

One good reason to move to CDI: you could have a common session-scoped resource (user profile for example) @Inject'ed into both JSF managed beans and REST services (i.e., Jersey/JAX-RS).

On the other hand, @ViewScoped is a compelling reason to stick with JSF @ManagedBean - especially for anything with significant AJAX. There is no standard replacement for this in CDI.

Seems that it may have some support for a @ViewScoped-like annotation for CDI beans, but I haven't played with it personally.

http://seamframework.org/Seam3/FacesModule