Cannot get FacesMessages to work

[c_eric_ray]

bean code...

 @In(create=true)
 private transient FacesMessages facesMessages;

 ...

if (!item.getCode().getCode().equals("SVD")) {
 facesMessages.add("closeButton", FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, "Remittance Item [#0] has not been saved.", item.getId());
 return "main";
 }

web page...

 <h:form>
 <h:commandButton id="closeButton" action="#{packages.close}" image="../img/save_green.gif"
 styleClass="button"
 onmouseover="this.src='../img/save_green_over.gif';"
 onmouseout="this.src='../img/save_green.gif';"
 onmousedown="this.src='../img/save_green_down.gif';"
 onmouseup="this.src='../img/save_green.gif';"/>
 <h:message for="closeButton"/>

 <h:dataTable id="openPackageTable" value="#{openPackages}" var="pkgEntity"

...blah, blah, blah...
 </h:dataTable>
 </h:form>

I cannot get the message to to display on the web page. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks.

[c_eric_ray]

fixed! i needed to return null instead of "main"

not sure where that was documented but i noticed in the seam examples after closer inspection.

[raja05]

This is standard JSF behaviour. Check out JSF Spec Section 7.4.2 under how the default NavigationHandler should behave.

[c_eric_ray]

thanks for the pointer.