Question

What is the best way to make “Back” links, so that the application stays consistent after navigation.

• onclick="history.go(-1)". Is this very harmful?
• Using a stack in a backing bean that pops you the navigation case of the last view. You can do this by setting the navigation case with <f:setPropertyActionListener>.
• None of these… other solutions.

Any help would be appreciated! Share your thoughts!
Daniel

Answer 1

I’m using:

• MyFaces orchestra for providing conversation scope
• <redirect /> for each navigation rule

This ensures that on pressing the “back” button or history.go(-1):

• the data that has been available in the previous screen will be still there (because the conversation is still active)
• the “resubmit” browser dialog won’t open.

P.S. “backlink” has a different meaning