How Does Seam resolve URL's ?

johnc5 Jun 28, 2008 5:09 AM

Take for instance this URL:

How does this get resolved? Does seem look for page.xhtml?
What if I have page.xhtml, page.html, page.jspf in the same directory. Which one will it open? Is there an order it searches?

Secondly if I have a stateless session EJB with seam name someaction. What URL will hit this action directly.
Is it:
http://localhost:8080/someapp/someaction.seam ?

John.

1. Re: How Does Seam resolve URL's ?

amitev Jun 28, 2008 12:20 PM (in response to johnc5)

*.seam is resolved by the Faces Servlet. Then Facelets is looking for a view with suffix javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX (.xhtml).
You can't hit url directly unless you exactly specify an onpageload action.
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2. Re: How Does Seam resolve URL's ?

johnc5 Jun 28, 2008 2:00 PM (in response to johnc5)

Thanks. So is it possible to hit a seam session EJB bean using a browser URL ?

John.
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3. Re: How Does Seam resolve URL's ?

admin.admin.email.tld Jun 29, 2008 6:33 PM (in response to johnc5)
What he was referring to was most likely a JSF EL call like such:

event="onpageload" action="#{fooAction.fooMethod}"

in a a4j:support tag perhaps.

or using Seam Remoting JS function to call a EJB method exposed using @WebRemote.

or maybe it's possible to configure this in the pages.xml??

In what use case would you need to hit an EJB method on a GET request from URL directly?

Typically, a EJB method execution, whether it's a SFSB or SLSB, is a result of a UI use case execution (e.g. enter fields in a form, click submit, etc.)
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