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JSF Navigation problem from my welcome page

Asked by: demchris

I got problem with my JSF project when trying to submit a form that is in my welcome page. I developed small web for which I only have one page with tabPanel into it, for one of my tab, I have a form with submit button, now, whe I click on the submit button, my action listener is never call and I am redirect to http://index.page...

If I access the web site not using the welcome-file mechanisms but directly access my page (http://localhost:8080/Index.page) everything works fine.

I try either with the jsp-forward strategy and the dummy Index.page file on my root, both of them give me same result.

I'm using jsf 1.2, Facelets 1.1.14, RichFaces 3.3.1.GA

Thanks,

It looks like the naviation handler isn't properly initialize when we're forwarding to the Index.page with welcome mechanism.

I built small sample to reproduce the problem, here is the code :
 
Here is my web.xml
 
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">
  <description></description>
  <display-name></display-name>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
    <param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>facelets.REFRESH_PERIOD</param-name>
    <param-value>2</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>
    <param-value>blueSky</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>com.sun.faces.numberOfViewsInSession</param-name>
    <param-value>30</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING</param-name>
    <param-value>enable</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <filter>
    <display-name>Ajax4jsf Filter</display-name>
    <filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
  </filter-mapping>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
  </listener>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.page</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>/index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
 
Here is my faces=config.xml:
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">
 <managed-bean>
  <managed-bean-name>contact</managed-bean-name>
  <managed-bean-class>com.cdsolutionsinfo.jsftest.contact.ContactHandler</managed-bean-class>
  <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>
 <application>
  <view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>
 </application>
</faces-config>
 
And here is the Index.xhtml :
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
      xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
      xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
      xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j">
 
	<ui:composition template="/template/common.xhtml">
		<ui:define name="pageTitle">Welcome</ui:define>
		<ui:define name="content">
			<rich:tabPanel switchType="ajax">
				<rich:tab label="One">
					<h:outputText value="Bla Bla" />
				</rich:tab>
				<rich:tab label="Two">
					<h:outputText value="Bla Bla" />
				</rich:tab>
				<rich:tab label="Contact">
					<h:form id="contactForm">
						<div class="required">
							<h:outputLabel value="Nom :" for="name"/>
							<h:inputText id="name" value="#{contact.name}" required="true"/>
							<h:message for="name"/>
						</div>
						<div class="required">
							<h:outputLabel value="Courriel :" for="email" />
							<h:inputText id="email" value="#{contact.email}" required="true">
							</h:inputText><h:message for="email"/>
						</div>
						<div>
							<h:outputLabel value="Numéro de téléphone :" for="phone" />
							<h:inputText id="phone" value="#{contact.phone}">
							</h:inputText><h:message for="phone"/>
						</div>
						<div>
							<h:outputLabel value="Détail :" for="detail" styleClass="labelTextArea"/>
							<h:inputTextarea id="detail" value="#{contact.detail}" rows="5" cols="60"/>
						</div>
						<div align="center">
							<h:commandButton action="#{contact.contactService}" value="Envoyer"/>
						</div>
					</h:form>
				</rich:tab>
			</rich:tabPanel>
		</ui:define>
	</ui:composition>
 
</html>

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Asked On: 2009-10-24 at 00:26:05ID24840090
Tags: JSF Navigation welcome page
Topics: Java Server Faces (JSF)
,; Navigational Systems
Participating Experts: 2
Points: 0
Comments: 11

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by: dravidnsrPosted on 2009-10-24 at 00:32:48ID: 25651181

<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>


<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

by: dravidnsrPosted on 2009-10-24 at 00:33:25ID: 25651183

ur path or web.xml def is wrong check that

by: a_bPosted on 2009-10-24 at 00:40:12ID: 25651191

When you say that the action is never called, do you mean that the contactService in the contachHandler bean is not called?

Also, JSF navigation is not setup in the faces xml. You need to specify the rules there.

Please post feedback.

by: demchrisPosted on 2009-10-24 at 00:45:05ID: 25651204

After more investigation, I discover than using context-root "/" in my jboss-web.xml create this problem,

My war is the root web app of my domain then I'm deploying it using context-root "/", but the problem is resolved when using any context-root but "/". But I absolutly need to use context-root "/", I don't want to force enduser to specify address like http://www.mydomain.com/mywebapp.

by: demchrisPosted on 2009-10-24 at 00:53:57ID: 25651222

No the contactService method is never call, also the validators (the required validator and all other one) are never call.

I try that to specify navigation riule like that :

<navigation-rule>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{contact.contactService}</from-action>
<from-outcome>Contact</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/Index.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

But it has not resolved the problem, and since I have only one page, I don't need to specify navigation rule, it works perfectly if I'm accessing directly the page http://localhost:8080/Index.page.

by: a_bPosted on 2009-10-24 at 01:10:56ID: 25651260

Can you post the signature of the contactService method?

by: demchrisPosted on 2009-10-24 at 01:47:49ID: 25651323

In my sample I create simple method like that:

public String contactService() {
return "Contact";
}

by: a_bPosted on 2009-10-24 at 04:13:30ID: 25651632

There is something else wrong. We need to see why the action is not invoked.

by: demchrisPosted on 2009-10-27 at 18:13:07ID: 25679204

I found a way to always force initialization of the Facelets engine (I discovered forwarding from my welcome jsp page to the my jsf Home page didn't initialize Facelet, I got the solution from the RichFaces sample (the PhotoAlbum), instead of using index.jsp for my welcome page, I'm using static html page responsible to request to refresh page with URL pointing to my home page, here is the html :

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=Home.page">
</head>
</html>

In this way, instead forwarding on the server to my Home.page, the browser will go to my Home.page and then it is similar for the server as I enter http://mydomain.com/Home.page.

I got information about a FaceletFilter that is able to trap forward event and then initialize properly Facelets but was unable to find either sample or the class.

by: dravidnsrPosted on 2009-10-27 at 22:22:20ID: 25680133

is this sloution for your problem ??

by: demchrisPosted on 2009-10-28 at 15:07:27ID: 25688835

Yes I finally resolbe myself my problem. The problem is the Facelets engine isn't properly initialize with forward in the welcome jsp page then instead of forwarding, we're requesting to go to the real jsf home page with html.

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