Page navigation problems

Question

Hi all,
I am new to JSF, and I am trying to implement a simple page navigation which displays some values that the user entered. The values are stored in a managed bean. It's a simple login form. I am using NetBeans as my IDE. My page navigation is set up as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 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>
<from-view-id>/index.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>login</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/login.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
</faces-config>
And my JSF page is setup as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="1.2" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
<f:view>
<webuijsf:page binding="#{index.page1}" id="page1">
<webuijsf:html binding="#{index.html1}" id="html1">
<webuijsf:head binding="#{index.head1}" id="head1">
<webuijsf:link binding="#{index.link1}" id="link1" url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
</webuijsf:head>
<webuijsf:body binding="#{index.body1}" id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
<webuijsf:form binding="#{index.form1}" id="form1">
<webuijsf:staticText binding="#{index.staticText1}" id="staticText1" style="position: absolute; left: 144px; top: 72px" text="Enter user name:"/>
<webuijsf:staticText binding="#{index.staticText2}" id="staticText2" text="Enter password:" />
<h:inputText binding="#{user.name}" id="txtUsername" />
<h:inputText binding="#{user.password}" id="txtPass" />
<h:commandButton action="login" binding="#{index.btnLogin}" id="btnLogin" value="Log in"/>
<h:inputText binding="#{index.txtUsername}" id="txtUsername"/>
<h:inputText binding="#{index.txtPass}" id="txtPass"/>
</webuijsf:form>
</webuijsf:body>
</webuijsf:html>
</webuijsf:page>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>
The web application compiles and deploys with no problem. However, when I click the btnSubmit button, it does not redirect me to the page specified in the faces-config.xml file. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you are trying to do here.
Are you trying to map the commandButton's action="login" to your rule <from-outcome>login</from-outcome>?
I think you want the commandButton to map to a method in your backing bean. E.g. action="#{bean.goToLogin}" .
The method goToLogin() should then return the string, "login" . This will be caught by your navigation rule <from-outcome>.
<from-outcome> maps to a specific string returned from a method called in that page.
But in this case if you just want redirection, it should be easier just an outputLink pointing to login.jsp.
Hope this helps!