How to push a button, run a report, and open output in new windows?

Question

I have an application where I want to present the user with a form, have them enter their report parameters, and then press a go button. I would then like to display a progress bar. The report will generate both a PDF and HTML output. When the report is complete, I want to display each one of these outputs in their own browser window.
How do I do this?

Answer 1

You want to retrieve two responses? Then you'll have to invoke two requests simultaneously. You can make this possible with a Javascript window.open call in the onclick attribute of the commandButton. E.g.
<h:commandButton
    value="submit"
    action="#{myBean.submit}"
    onclick="window.open('pdfServlet?param1=value1&param2=value2');" />Where the bean action just returns the HTML (JSF) result and the onclick fires a servlet, if neccessary supplied with request parameters so that it knows what PDF it need to generate.