Jack Van Ooststroom added a comment - 12/Jul/11 3:42 PM The @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotation support on CustomScoped beans already seemed to be partially supported. Though I haven't looked into the JSF source code, I suspect the following two calls in WindowScopeManager to help out with the current support of this: facesContext.getApplication().publishEvent(facesContext, PostConstructCustomScopeEvent.class, context); facesContext.getApplication().publishEvent(facesContext, PreDestroyCustomScopeEvent.class, context); These calls and the locations in the code where these calls are made seem to explain the 2 working scenarios: Whenever a window scoped bean is created the @PostConstruct on this window scoped bean gets invoked Whenever a window scoped bean is abandoned but the session hasn't expired yet, the @PreDestroy on this window scoped bean gets invoked The one missing case seem to be the invocation of @PreDestroy upon session expiry for all remaining window scoped beans in the session. However, upon session expiry you're not guaranteed to have a FacesContext. Therefore the similar mechanism cannot be used. Instead, the SessionExpiredListener now invokes the newly created WindowScopeManager.disposeWindows(HttpSession) upon session expiry: public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent httpSessionEvent) { ... HttpSession session = httpSessionEvent.getSession(); WindowScopeManager.disposeWindows(session); ... } public static void disposeWindows(final HttpSession session) { State state = (State)session.getAttribute(WindowScopeManager.class.getName()); Collection<ScopeMap> scopeMaps = state.windowScopedMaps.values(); for (final ScopeMap scopeMap : scopeMaps) { Collection<Object> windowScopedBeans = scopeMap.values(); for (final Object windowScopedBean : windowScopedBeans) { callPreDestroy(windowScopedBean); } } } However, currently the @PreDestroy on an abandoned window scoped bean gets invoked twice: ICE-7055

Jack Van Ooststroom added a comment - 21/Jul/11 10:00 AM Upon session expiry all window scoped beans contained in the windowScopedMaps and disposedWindowScopedMaps collections will have their @PreDestroy annotated method invoked. Marking this one as FIXED.