“remember me” functionality with jsf 2.0

Question

I am trying to implement \"remember me\"/\"autologin\" functionality. I have stored a cookie at the client but when should I read it? If I try to do that in a filter, for exampl

Answer 1

Session scope will keep content for as long as a session is active, combine it with a state persistence either in DB or via a cookie.

Non of the scopes will really "remember" your state by itself, the best you can do is persist the state to the DB and when the user returns, restore it as best as possible and push the data into a sessionscoped bean.

Otherwise extend the sessionscope's session via a cookie

FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext.addResponseCookie(..)