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I have the following code to manage two kinds of repositories. Both repository classes inherit an interface to allow reinitialization of their resources. public interface CachingRepository { public void invalidateCache(); } Global, application-scoped repo: @Named("globalRepo") @ApplicationScoped public class GlobalRepository implements CachingRepository { private List<Category> categories; ... @Override public void invalidateCache() { categories = null; } ... } Per user, session-scoped repo: @Named("userRepo") @SessionScoped //@Stateful // <- NOTE HERE public class UserRepository implements

In our JavaEE6 project ( EJB3 , JSF2 ) on JBoss 7.1.1 , it seems we have a memory leak with SeamFaces @ViewScoped . We made a little prototype to check the fact : we use JMeter to call a page 200 times; the page contains and calls a viewscoped bean which injects a stateful EJB; we fix the session timeout at 1 minute. At the end of the test, we check the content of the memory with VisualVM, and here what we got: with a @ViewScoped bean, we still get 200 instances of the stateful MyController - and the @PreDestroy method is never called; with a @ConversationScoped bean, @preDestroy method is