how we forward a JSF page into Servlet

[Vimal Bharathi Andiappan]

Hi i am new to JSF , I have a problem how to forward a JSF page into Sevlet. Same thing i will be used in jsp means it is very easy through (form action="") but in JSF there is no "form action ". Any body knows please reply

[Tim Holloway]

A JSF page can link to any kind of target, including servlets. However a JSF FORM is expected to talk to JSF. That's because you're getting fields populated from JSF and JSF manages a cycle of repeated validations and error displays until the user either gets the data clean enough to use of abandons the page. JSF also carries a lot of freight that other platforms don't want/need/understand.

In order to submit a form to a servlet, it has to be a non-JSF form, so you usually are going to find life simpler if the form page is completely non-JSF - a straight JSP, servlet-generated HTML, Struts, or whatever. Since you normally pre-load data into a form, this usually means that the JSF action processor that takes you there is going to have to do a forwarding operation to invoke the form setup code.

[Jerwin Louise Uy]

Client Side

- You can embed the resource (with can either be a servlet or a resource), but you have the pass the parameters in the traditional way.

Server Side

- You can either perform a redirect or a dispatch

## redirect
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ExternalContext ec = facesContext.getExternalContext();
ec.redirect(url)

## dispatch
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ExternalContext ec = facesContext.getExternalContext();
ec.dispatch(url)

In essence, ExternalContext object serves as your window to non jsf resources.

I hope this helps.

[Mahendra Pratap]

can some body please tell me what to put in url. the actual URL or just the path of class file specifiled in servlet mapping in web.xml

thanks a lot