bookmarkable and friendly url's

[ricardomarques]

Hi guys

I know that seam enhances JSF, but does seam handle bookmarkable url', i remenber that if faces it a bit complicated deal with it because the pamateres are hidden and there is no easy bean initialization, also usually during a postback a page losses his parameters.


Does seam enhances this model, or the same "issues" exist on seam?

I'm asking this because bookmarkable and friendly url's are a requirement for my application, and i'm wondering is seam is the right choice?

thanks in advanced

[pmuir]

Yes, Seam adds to JSF and provides very good support for RESTful urls (i.e. bookmarkable). Take a look at it's support for page parameters" and s:link. The blog example shows this off too.

[delphi'sghost]

I know the s:link and s:button controls append params to the URL using page params, but is there any way to do it for the h:commandButton control, or the ajaxy submits from Richfaces? Bearing in mind the s:link/button controls don't post the forms so they are useless for data entry submitters.

The docs only really mention page parameters from the perspective of a non-interactive page (i.e. bookmarkable search results), but I imagine most people want them on interactive pages. Even if a page is read only with multiple tabs, it seems the tab click events kill the param in the URL.

I thought (and I could be wrong) that this problem could be worked around by switching from using @RequestParameter to using the id getters and setters on the EntityHome object for example and then the param was always in the URL?

[pmuir]

commandButton submits the form using POST. Therefore no. This is something that needs addressing at the JSF spec level.