Difference between JSF FlowScoped and CDI ConversationScoped

Question

What are the differences between javax.faces.flow.FlowScoped and javax.enterprise.context.ConversationScoped beans and when should either be used in application? Becouse as far as I'm concerned they are somehow similar, but I can not figure it out by the material I found on the Internet?

Answer 1

A flow is a group of views related by navigation rules. Flow-scoped beans stay alive as long as you navigate within this flow, and they die when you leave the flow.

Conversation-scoped beans can also survive navigation, but their lifetime is delimited programmatically by calling Conversation.begin() and Conversation.end(). They are not directly related to a specific group of views.

You can use conversation scoped beans without using JSF.