Navigation issues with MyFaces

[Avaneesh Arora]

I am using MyFaces 1.0.8:

I have the following example Navigation.jsp file:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; prefix="h"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://myfaces.apache.org/extensions"; prefix="x"%>

<x:panelNavigation id="nav" styleClass="navigation"
       separatorClass="navseparator" itemClass="navitem"
       activeItemClass="navitem_active" openItemClass="navitem_open">
       <x:commandNavigation id="nav_home" value="Home" action="go_home" />
       <x:commandNavigation id="nav_topic1" value="Topic1">
               <x:commandNavigation id="nav_topic1_item1" value="ITEM1"
action="#{Page1.go_inv}">
                       <f:param name="invType" value="Item1" />
               </x:commandNavigation>
               <x:commandNavigation id="nav_topic1_item2" value="ITEM2"
action="#{Page1.go_inv}">
                       <f:param name="invType" value="Item2/>
               </x:commandNavigation>
       </x:commandNavigation>
       <x:commandNavigation id="nav_topic2" value="Topic2">
               <x:commandNavigation id="nav_topic2_item1" value="ITEM1"
action="#{Page1.go_pm}" >
                       <f:param name="pmType" value="Item1" />
               </x:commandNavigation>
               <x:commandNavigation id="nav_topic2_item2" value="ITEM2"
action="#{Page1.go_pm}" >
                       <f:param name="pmType" value="Item2" />
               </x:commandNavigation>
       </x:commandNavigation>
</x:panelNavigation>

And this is my examples-config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD
JavaServer Faces Config 1.0//EN"
                             "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd";>
<faces-config>
<managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>Page1</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>test.Page1</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 <managed-property>
  <property-name>invType</property-name>
  <property-class>java.lang.String</property-class>
  <value/>
 </managed-property>
 <managed-property>
  <property-name>pmType</property-name>
  <property-class>java.lang.String</property-class>
  <value/>
 </managed-property>
</managed-bean>
<navigation-rule>
 <from-view-id>/home.jsp</from-view-id>
 <navigation-case>
  <from-outcome>go_inv</from-outcome>
  <to-view-id>/Inventory.jsp</to-view-id>
 </navigation-case>
 <navigation-case>
  <from-outcome>go_pm</from-outcome>
  <to-view-id>/Performance.jsp</to-view-id>
 </navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
<lifecycle/>
<application>
 <locale-config/>
</application>
<factory/>
</faces-config>

The problem I am seeing is that when the home.jsp page first shows up, the view
gets stuck on whatever menu item I select first . If any of the sub menus under
go_inv menu get selected, then Inventory.jsp page shows up. If I first select
any menu items under go_pm, then the Performance.jsp view shows up.
After that, clicking any other menu item does not change the JSP
corresponding to
the selected menu item. The page just refreshes but the view does not change.

In my test.Page1 managed bean, the go_pm or go_inv return the correct
names as per the navigation rules. And each menu item click does
trigger the action and the appropriate method gets called. However,
the Jsp corresponding to the selection
does not change. What is going wrong here?

In general, what I am trying to do here is that I want to prepopulate
the jsp based on the selected menu item and display the page; the same
JSP will be used (with slight differences) based on the selected menu,
and I need that selection info on the page.

Do jscookMenu/PanelNavigation/CommandNavigation work with Forms or is
that still an issue?

Thanks for any Advice !
Avaneesh