Question

Right now I am giving my navigation rules in the faces-config.xml file. If I want to stop making entries in faces-config.xml.

How can i specify the navigation rules if I don’t want to do it in faces-config.xml?

“faces-config.xml”

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">
    <navigation-rule>
        <description>Navigation from the hello page.</description>
        <from-view-id>/login.xhtml</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/wsListing.xhtml</to-view-id>
            <redirect />
        </navigation-case>
    </navigation-rule>
    <navigation-rule>
        <description>Navigation from the hello page.</description>
        <from-view-id>/wsListing.xhtml</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>ebzService</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/ebzinput.xhtml</to-view-id>
            <redirect />
        </navigation-case>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>filterEbz</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/filterebzinput.xhtml</to-view-id>
            <redirect />
        </navigation-case>
    </navigation-rule>


    <navigation-rule>
        <description>Navigation from the hello page.</description>
        <from-view-id>/ebzinput.xhtml</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/ebzoutput.xhtml</to-view-id>
            <redirect />
        </navigation-case>
        </navigation-rule>

</faces-config>

Answer 1

Instead of “success” the action method may return a view id, for example

public String login() { return "wsListing"; }

This way you can shift your navigation rules to your managed beans.
If you want to enforce a redirect use

public String login() { return "wsListing?faces-redirect=true"; }