title: Does request paramters retain values through out lifecycle of a spring web flow
body: <p>At this link:<a href="http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?16393-Difference-between-Spring-MVC-Web-Framework-and-Web-Flow" rel="nofollow">http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?16393-Difference-between-Spring-MVC-Web-Framework-and-Web-Flow</a>
  it says: a webflow is "longer than a request but shorter than a session." Does it mean that request scoped parameters will retain their values so long as they are part of the same webflow without having to use a session?</p>