Question on h:outputLink

[Abiodun Adisa]

Please does hutputLink have an attribute that ensures a method is invoked when i click on it. For example in a command Button i can have

<h:commandButton action="#{index.submit} >

This ensures that

String submit()

method is invoked

[Krishna Srinivasan]

http://www.horstmann.com/corejsf/jsf-tags.html#Table4_18

[Yohan Liyanage]

If you want to invoke a Backing Bean method with a link, you can make use of <h:commandLink /> tag. It has an action attribute which allows you to specify the method in EL, just as in a commandButton. Only difference is, this tag will result in a <a /> tag, instead of a button.

I think this is what you are looking for.

HTH.

[Abiodun Adisa]

Originally posted by Yohan Liyanage:
If you want to invoke a Backing Bean method with a link, you can make use of <h:commandLink /> tag. It has an action attribute which allows you to specify the method in EL, just as in a commandButton. Only difference is, this tag will result in a <a /> tag, instead of a button.

I think this is what you are looking for.

HTH.

Thanks for your reply the reason why i am not using <h:commandLink> is that I think the action attributes requires an entry that corresponds to a entry in your faces-config.xml, and it does not allow me to forward say to an external Servlet. The reason i am using outputLink is that it allows me to redirect to an external Servlet whenever a user clicks the page

<hutputLink title="Edit Resume" value="/ccsvscxxd/servlet/ResumeServlet">

[Tim Holloway]

You can't invoke arbitrary methods in servlets. They're not designed for it. The GenericServlet gets all URL requests sent to its service() method. For HttpServlets, the service() method looks at the request type and dispatches the doGet, doPost, etc. method.

[Abiodun Adisa]

Originally posted by Tim Holloway:
You can't invoke arbitrary methods in servlets. They're not designed for it. The GenericServlet gets all URL requests sent to its service() method. For HttpServlets, the service() method looks at the request type and dispatches the doGet, doPost, etc. method.

I am not invoking methods of servlet themselves, I am invoking the servlet using an outputLink