Need help: commandLinks do not react anymore

Question

Hi
I have the following problem:
After some time of navigating through my webapp the commandLinks do not react anymore as expected. I use command links like this:
<h:commandLink action="#{UserHandler.listFromBegin}" >
                      <h:outputText styleClass="commands" value="#{bundle.users_cmd_start}" />
               </h:commandLink>  
               <h:commandLink action="#{UserHandler.listPreviousRange}" >
                      <h:outputText styleClass="commands" value="#{bundle.users_cmd_previous}" />
               </h:commandLink>  
               <h:commandLink action="#{UserHandler.listNextRange}" >
                      <h:outputText styleClass="commands" value="#{bundle.users_cmd_next}" />
               </h:commandLink>  
               <h:commandLink action="#{UserHandler.listEnd}" >
                      <h:outputText styleClass="commands" value="#{bundle.users_cmd_end}" />
               </h:commandLink>  
               <br/><br/><br/><br/>
               <h:commandLink action="home" >
                      <h:outputText styleClass="commands" value="#{bundle.users_cmd_home}" />
               </h:commandLink>  
               <h:commandLink action="#{UserHandler.prepareUserFormForAdd}"  >
                      <h:outputText styleClass="commands" value="#{bundle.users_cmd_add}" />
               </h:commandLink>The methods bound in the action attribute always return the action that tells where to go next. But after a while of clicking aroung in the application, these methods are not called anymore. The logs then show this picture:
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl] - <execute(com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl@254ae5)>
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl] - <phase(RESTORE_VIEW 1,com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl@254ae5)>
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase] - <Entering RestoreViewPhase>
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase] - <New request: creating a view for /workflowusers.jsp>
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase] - <Exiting RestoreViewPhase>
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl] - <render(com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl@254ae5)>
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl] - <phase(RENDER_RESPONSE 6,com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl@254ae5)>
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase] - <Entering RenderResponsePhase>
2006-05-12 10:36:57,512 DEBUG [com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase] - <About to render view /workflowusers.jsp>So after a while all requests are suddenly "new" requests and the Restore Phase proceeds directly to the Render Response Phase and thus leaves the Invoke Application Phase out.
Can anybody please give me a hint where to search the problem?
Thanks a lot!
Regards.

Answer 1

There is a bug with commandLink.
What version are you using of JSF?
If you use firefox and have the web developer tools you can see what is happening. You verify that the input hidden that contains the value of the commandlink submit value, probably have the wrong value after a while.