Jacob Hookom, in discussing JSF myths [1], claims that:
"Also, JSF can handle GET requests just as easily as other frameworks.
Because of JSF's
managed bean (IoC container), you can do the same kinds of things as
you can with
WebWork -- from parameter assignment to backing beans. An example is
linking from page
to page where id's are passed -- you can go the same route as Struts
or WebWork and just
render "employee.jsf?id=#{emp.id}" -- you don't have to use stateful component
communication between pages."
Is there any truth to this? I thought the reason we had extensions
like NonFacesRequestServlet [2] was because this wasn't supported by
the core functionality?
thanks,
Hubert
[1] http://virtuas.com/articles/webframework-sweetspots.html
[2] http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/InvokingJsfPagesWithStandardUrls
