right, i'm looking for the process to be initiated by a url punched into
a browser, not a user clicking a <h:commandButton> or <h:commandLink>
control.
as i can have a url drop directly into an action and use
mapping.findForward(outcome) to use the struts configuration navigation
rules to direct to the next page.
is there an analogy to mapping.findForward() that could be invoked in a
controlling servlet?
seems like it could be useful to have a servlet which you could pass in
something like "managedBeanName.actionMethodName" in as a parameter and
have it do the right thing.
Laurie Harper wrote:
But what about if you need to do this for the initial page? (i.e. you
don't have a page to put a command link on...)
I want this to be able to have bookmarkable URLs in my app, where
different URLs may map to the same view (JSP) -- for example, URLs
/app/users/tom and /app/users/jim would both be served by
/pages/user.jsp, and 'tom' or 'jim' would be passed into the JSP as a
request attribute/parameter.
The only way I've figured out so far to do this sort of thing is to
write a front-controller servlet that does the mapping from logical
URLs to physical JSPs and uses requestDispatcher.forward() to pass
control off to the Faces servlet.
It's been suggested that writing a custom navigation handler might be
another route to go; I haven't had a chance to explore that yet.
L.
Mike Kienenberger wrote:
<UICommand action="#{bean.process}">
// On bean
public String process()
{
// process
if (result1) return "processResult1";
if (result2) return "processResult2";
if (result3) return "processResult3";
if (result4) return "processResult4";
return "processResultDefault";
}
On 12/20/05, tony kerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
at the risk of asking a stupid question:
if i wanted to have a user hit a url and have some processing take
place
which then results in one of several available pages being
displayed, in
struts i could easily accomplish that with an action class.
what would be the appropriate way to accomplish that functionality in a
JSF application?
something like dropping into an action method on a backing bean, but
without the initial page...
