Query on CommandLink's javascript conversion

[kevin redd]

Suppose that the CommandLink component is used in the following way to submit the h:form:-

<h:commandLink id="animalCommandLink" value="submit" action="show"/>

When the page is loaded in the browser(Mozilla) I can see its JAVASCRIPT and <a> tag, in the page source as follows:-

<script type="text/javascript" src="/AnimalWeb/javax.faces.resource/jsf.js.xhtml?ln=javax.faces&stage=Development"></script>
<a id="animalCommandLink" href="#" onclick="mojarra.jsfcljs(document.getElementById('j_idt5'),{'animalCommandLink':'animalCommandLink'},'');return false">submit</a></td>
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My Query is that, though I have specified a navigation in CommandLink as 'action="show"' why does the populated pagesource show 'href="#"' ? Shouldn't it show 'href="show.xhtml"' ?

Is there any specific reason for the show.xhtml not being populated? Or is it for some security reason to hide the page nevigation from the END user?

Thanks in advance.

[Tim Holloway]

It's becausee JSF doesn't do direct client-side navigation via html links. It's submitting a form, and the metadata within the form is used by the FacesServlet to do the actual navigation. And although the rendered tag looks pretty cryptic, JSF does know how to handle it properly.

Which is actually to "show.jsf", not "show.xhtml". JSF works on URLs, not on resources such as .xhtml. The resources are used to do the URL processing.

[kevin redd]

Thank you Tim :)