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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:39:51+00:00

Is a better way to generate absolute links in JSF 2.0 ? Right now

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Is a better way to generate absolute links in JSF 2.0 ? Right now I’m using <h:outputLink/> in that ugly way with #{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath} like below. I don’t want to use JSTL and <c:url />

<h:outputLink value="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/pages/home.jsf">Home</h:outputLink>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can shorten #{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath} to #{request.contextPath}. You can even get rid of it to use HTML <base> tag instead.

    In this particular case, better is to use <h:link> instead. It can take a context-relative navigation case path in outcome attribute:

    <h:link value="Home" outcome="pages/home" />

    JSF will take care about adding the right context path and FacesServlet mapping while generating the <a> element:

    <a href="/contextname/pages/home.jsf">Home</a>

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