Hi!
If you say you press the link and nothing happens, do you mean no http request will be sent to the server?I've tried with both request and session scope for the mainWindowBeanHandler, but it's still doing nothing :(
To you see any browser action?
If not, it might be a javascript problem.I use myfaces-1.1.1 and it looks like I have a similar problem when I place a inputHtml component in my form ... currently investigating it.
--- Mario

