Ah, now I see :-)
Well what you could do is this:
index.jsp
--> <jsp:forward page="welcome.jsf"/>
in weclome.jsp you could refer to a backingBean
(welcomBacking,java)
public class WelcomeBacking {
private String tippOfTheDay;
//getter+setter
public WelcomeBacking(){
//connecting to DB or else
tippOfTheDay = myTempDBaccessObject.getTipp();
}
}
in welcome.jsp file you could
use a tag like
<h:outputText value="#welcomeBacking.tippOfTheDay"/>
to be able to do this your WelcomeBackingBean-clazz must be described
in faces-config.xml in managed-bean-facility.
btw. with this you will be also able to read HTTP-params in constructor
of a BackingBean on a request like:
http://host:port/app/listDetailsOfCustomer.jsf?id=654567865
JSF delivers an ExternalContext for accessing HTTP-Parameters
HTH,
Matthias
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SV: Weird question?
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>
> Hi
>
> Yes. I am looking at JSF for the next generation of a current
> Struts based application. When the user gets the first
> (index.do) page presented, the Struts Action has looked up
> news etc from the database to present on the frontpage.
>
> Regards
> Hermod
>
> -----Opprinnelig melding-----
> Fra: Matthias Wessendorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sendt: 22. november 2004 12:58
> Til: 'MyFaces Development'
> Emne: RE: Weird question?
>
>
> Could you be more detailed on that?
>
> I guess you mean the *preActions* ?
>
> Like http://host:port/myApp/showFormpage.do
> that Action does something and *forwards*
> to a JSP, that contains a HTML-form
> for using formbeans?
>
> Do you mean this?
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
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> >
> > Hi
> >
> > There is one question that I have not been able to fand an
> > answer to. Since in JSF there is no notion of a
> > FrontEndController, hence no way of calling an initial Action
> > like you do in struts which can be used to prepopulate the
> > request/session with data - How do you propose to do this in JSF ?
> >
> > Hermod
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