downloading generated report in JSF

[chono ken]

Hi all,

how I do download a generated data like a file.
I prefer to do it in JSF than JSP/servlet.
When user clicks on the first JSF "download report" button and server should display the second JSF and (popup) dialog window "save or open".


thanks.

[Gerardo Tasistro]

I would use a servlet and be done with it. JSF is overkill.

[chono ken]

any idea, please.

I need to do it in JSF.

thanks.

[Gerardo Tasistro]

What I do is create a normal <form> using a <f:verbatim> tag. Then form targets _blank and the href is a servlet which gets the report parameters (or can query them from session)

[Tim Holloway]

"To a small child with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

JSF isn't designed to do file transfers or render reports. It's geared towards UI-type stuff. For what you want, a servlet is simpler.

Just because the UI components of your webapp are JSF doesn't mean you must force everything in the webapp to go through JSF. After all, JSF itself is just a servlet and some support libraries.

[chono ken]

I figured this out.
Here's link, where I've found solution of the problem.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=662942
May be help to someone, who has similar problem.
[ February 28, 2006: Message edited by: chono ken ]