Question

I’m working in a jsf2 application and I have a problem with the page name displayed in the address bar. When I navigate to an other page I have in address bar the name of the previous page.

Thanks.

Answer 1

That’s because you’re using POST instead of GET for page-to-page navigation and JSF defaults to submitting to the very same view with you’re using <h:form>. Using POST for page-to-page navigation is in any case a very poor approach. It’s not only not user friendly (it’s not bookmarkable and confusing), but it’s also not SEO friendly (searchbots don’t follow <form> actions).

To solve this problem, you must stop using <h:commandLink> for page-to-page navigation. Use <h:link> instead.

<h:link value="Go to next page" outcome="nextpage" />

This will just render a

<a href="/contextpath/nextpage.xhtml">Go to next page</a>

Which is perfectly bookmarkable, user friendly and SEO friendly.

When you’re navigating to a different page as result of a real POST form submit, I’d also replace that by returning null or void and just render the result/messages conditionally in the very same view. Or if the result is supposed to be bookmarkable (e.g. search results), you should use normal links or plain <form> instead of <h:form> and use <f:viewParam> in target view.

See also:

• When should I use h:outputLink instead of h:commandLink?