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
<h:outputLink title="Edit Resume" value="/ccsvscxxd/servlet/ResumeServlet">