Problem to open URL link within hx:outputLinkEx

Question

Hello,
I have a problem to open a URL with the following code, I can see that url output string is "www.lalalala.com" , but after I click it, the new opened browser window is point to "http://localhost:9081/.../www.lalalala.com" ??
Can someone help me why?
Thanks a lot!
<odc:bfPanel
                    name="URL" showFinishCancelButton="false">
          <hx:panelBox>
              <hx:outputLinkEx styleClass="outputLinkEx"
                    value="#{pc_UrlWebsite.url}" target="_blank">
                    <h:outputText   value="#{pc_UrlWebsite.url}"></h:outputText>
              </hx:outputLinkEx>                                                            
          </hx:panelBox>
       </odc:bfPanel>

Answer 1

External links are links which goes outside your web container root.
Imagine you're sitting in http://example.com/webapp/page.jsf, then the webroot is http://example.com/webapp.
If you specify a link without a protocol (http, https, ftp, file, etc), then the client will always assume that you're linking to a resource in your web container. So when page.jsf links to a resource called "www.google.com", without the protocol, then the client will assume that you're referring to http://example.com/webapp/www.google.com. If you prefix it with a valid protocol, e.g. "http://www.google.com", then the client will assume that you're referring to http://www.google.com.
After all .. In your case this is not applicable. You're using commandlinks instead of outputlinks. Why are you asking this? Which problems are you occurring? Do you want to submit to an external URL or so?