conversation help needed please

[ehung]

Hi

I'm a seam beginner so I might approach the problem in the wrong way. Please correct and help me to solve the problem.

I have a popout class and a builder class that does the following in the click event

PopOut p = new PopOut();
p.begin();
p.....

My question is that how to retrieve the conversation Id of this newly created object.
I need to return the conversation id to the client so that the client can open a new window.
I assume I can do window.open(http.....jsf?conversationId=XXX)
I guess I can't have a joined conversation because a popout can open another popout.
So each popout should exist in its own conversation.

@Name("popout")
@Scope(..CONVERSATION)
public class PopOut {

@Create
public String create() {...}

@Begin
public String begin() {...}

public void activate() {...}

}

[ehung]

I've been viewing the forum. Please correct me if I get seam conversation wrong. Executing a method annotated with the @begin does not start a conversation immediately. So there is no way to find out the conversation id. I have to redirect request to the popout page to solve the problem??

And the builder class method will do the following?

public void newInstance() {

PopOut p = new PopOut();
p.begin();
p.set up the page content
redirect

}

[norman.richards]

Conversation.instance().getId() would give you the conversation id, but there are other mechanisms to generation a link with a conversationId in it. Have you tried s:link or s:conversationId with a normal JSF link?