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What is the best way to reduce the size of the viewstate hidden field in JSF? I have noticed that my view state is approximately 40k this goes down to the client and back to the server on every request and response espically coming to the server this is a significant slowdown for the user.

My Environment JSF 1.2, MyFaces, Tomcat, Tomahawk, RichFaces

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David Waters
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Facelets saves less state per component than the JSF default JSP presentation.

Heath Borders
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One option is to completely save the view state on client side but you may face some problem such as not being able to Serialize the object. You may want to try using different compression algorithm/utility based on your requirement but since the browser will already use the GZip by default I am not sure how much you can gain.

royalGhost
My biggest concern is the size of the post from the client to the server as many users have much less upstream then downstream. No compression takes place when the client sends a request
David Waters
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Have you tried setting the state saving to server? This should only send an id to the client, and keep the full state on the server.

 <context-param>
  <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
  <param-value>server</param-value>
 </context-param>
deathy
Please be aware that using server state saving increases the server memory consumption _a lot_! If you have many users (thousands) this can be a bottleneck very fast.
Marcel