faces-redirect=true in JSF

Question

I am using the ?faces-redirect=true in my JSF2, since I would like to redirect the user so the URL will be changed.

In JSF1.2 I added </redirect> in faces-config.

In JSF2 I have to add to my url return home?faces-redirect=true.

The problem is that I see faces-redirect=2 in the URL, what I haven't seen in JSF1.2 when I used </redirect>

How can I use faces-redirect in actions without displaying it in the browser URL?

My Jar's list:

antlr-2.7.6.jar
aopalliance-1.0.jar
aspectjrt.jar
atmosphere-compat-tomcat-0.5.jar
atmosphere-runtime-0.5.jar

commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-collections-3.2.jar
commons-dbcp-1.2.2.jar
commons-digester-2.0.jar
commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar
commons-httpclient-3.1.jar
commons-io-1.4.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
commons-pool-1.5.4.jar
dom4j.jar
ehcache-1.2.4.jar

hibernate-annotations.jar
hibernate-cglib-repack-2.1_3.jar
hibernate-commons-annotations.jar
hibernate3.jar

itext-1.4.8.jar
javassist.jar
javax.persistence.jar
jhighlight-1.0.jar
jsf-api.jar
jsf-impl.jar
jstl-api-1.2.jar
jstl-impl-1.2.jar
jta-1.1.jar
log4j-1.2.15.jar
mail.jar
mysql-connector-java-5.1.0-bin.jar

org.springframework.aop-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.asm-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.aspects-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.beans-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.context-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.context.support-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.core-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.expression-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.instrument-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.instrument.tomcat-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.jms-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.orm-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.oxm-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.test-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.transaction-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.web-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.web.portlet-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.web.servlet-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar
org.springframework.web.struts-3.0.1.RELEASE-A.jar

poi-3.2-FINAL.jar
primefaces-2.0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.11.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.11.jar
spring-aop.jar

My web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
    <display-name>OnBoard</display-name>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

    <context-param>
        <description></description>
        <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
        <param-value>server</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>classpath:/applicationContext.xml
            classpath:/applicationContext-security.xml
            </param-value>
    </context-param>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>com.sun.faces.expressionFactory</param-name>
        <param-value>com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>com.sun.faces.forceLoadConfiguration</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>facelets.BUILD_BEFORE_RESTORE</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </context-param>


    <filter>
        <filter-name>Security Page Filter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>com.mycompany.servlet.SecurityFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>


    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>Security Page Filter</filter-name>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    </filter-mapping>


    <filter>
        <filter-name>PrimeFaces FileUpload Filter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.primefaces.webapp.filter.FileUploadFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>PrimeFaces FileUpload Filter</filter-name>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    </filter-mapping>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.primefaces.resource.ResourceServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/primefaces_resource/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
</web-app>

Does the other JSF 2.0 aspects work? It might be that your classpath is polluted with an JSF 1.2 implementation which got precedence in classloading. — BalusC
What is JSF2.0 aspects? I have jsf-api+ jsf-impl version 2.0.2 as well I have aspectjrt.jar since I use Spring — Dejell
Uh, just JSF 2.0 specific features. The annotations, the new API classes/methods, etc, all which are thus not present in JSF 1.2 or older. — BalusC
Basically the answer is that what you observe is not expected - something must be wrong with your config. Maybe post your web.xml, and a list of your bundled jars. What server is this running on? — Brian Leathem

BalusC BalusC · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-12T12:39:54

This looks all fine. Something else is disturbing it. Maybe Spring? I don't do Spring so I can't tell anything about it. At least, it works fine here with Mojarra 2.0.2 + PrimeFaces 2.1 + Tomcat 6.0.24.

To nail this problem down anyway, consider creating a brand new web project with only jsf-api.jar and jsf-impl.jar files in the /WEB-INF/lib and two simple XHTML files with a <h:commandButton outcome="otherfile?faces-redirect=true" />. Then add libraries/components/mappings step by step until you get the same setup as the original project. Test the working of faces-redirect during every step. Keep track of what you've added so that you know what may have caused this problem.

faces-redirect=true in JSF

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