My environment: Java 7/JSF 2.1/PrimeFaces 6.1.

My goal: to have a certain page of my application instantiated many times, one for each browser tab, each one with a different context.

My problem: everytime I open a second browser tab requesting from the same url, but with different object id, the previous one is destroyed, so only one backing bean instance is kept alive.

How do I know that: In my backing bean I have one method annotated with @PosConstruct and other with @PreDestroy, so I can track the life cicle of the instances.

My backing bean is annotated as follows:

@ViewController public class MyBackingBeanMB extends AbstractBackingBeanMB { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; // many fields and methods } 

The @ViewController annotation is provided by the application framework I have to use. Such an annotation is declared as:

@Named @Controller @Stereotype @ViewScoped // For me, this should do the trick, but... @Target(value={TYPE}) @Retention(value=RUNTIME) @Inherited public @interface ViewController { } 

Update 1:

The @Controller annotation is also provided by the framework I use and is declared as:

@InterceptorBinding @Inherited @Target({ TYPE, METHOD }) @Retention(RUNTIME) public @interface Controller { } 

Any ideas of what could be wrong?

TIA.