Advantage of S:LINK over A HREF link?

[samuraicoder]

     
What is the advantage of S:LINK over an html link?

<s:link id="footercustomercarefoot" action="customer_care" 
        title="Go to Customer Care." value="#{messages.customerCare}" />

Used in conjunction with the pages.xml file where a rule is set:

                <rule if-outcome="customer_care"> 
                    <redirect 
                        view-id="/store/#{customerSession.storeShortName}/customer_care.xhtml" /> 
                </rule> 

I did not code the above, but we want to add a new link. Can you explain why the above is better than just adding a normal link <a href=""> etc..???

Searching for a reason on the web AND in Beginning JBOSS Seam is providing no direct answer. I think the framework assumes some sort of past knowledge.

Kind regards,
Dan

[thokuest]

You know the documentation?

<s:link>

A link that supports invocation of an action with control over conversation propagation. Does not submit the form.

For your example: You can invoke a navigation action and you don't need a <h:form> to do that.

[samuraicoder]

Ah thank you. I did not see that part of the documentation. I had found this one http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.1.2/reference/en-US/html/conversations.html#d0e6141