JSF 2.0 Navigation Not Working

Question

I am using Netbeans 7.0, Glassfish 3.1, JSF 2.0 I am trying to navigate from one view to another in a step-wise user registration process (with three steps). Each step corresponds to a view and these views are in different folders but all have the same name, i.e register.xhtml. i have tried implicit navigation whereby i specify the absolute path of the views in a managed bean event listener and also using the faces-config.xml navigation cases.

The problem is that i can navigate from the first step/view to the next step/view without a problem. Navigating to the third view however results in a com.sun.faces.context.FacesFileNotFoundException

the file structure is like

/extensions/assm/registration/individual/register.xhtml
/extensions/assm/registration/address/register.xhtml
/extensions/assm/registration/systemuser/register.xhtml

extract of faces-config.xml for navigating from address to systemuser

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id></from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>gotosystemuser</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/extensions/aasm/registration/systemuser/register.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

anyone out there know where i am getting it wrong?

Bhesh Gurung Bhesh Gurung · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-27T14:42:23

com.sun.faces.context.FacesFileNotFoundException

means that JSF is not able to locate the view. The view id you have specified in the navigation-rule is not good (somehow).

A view is identified by the path with everything after the context root, including the / at the beginning.

But you also have to include the URL pattern that's mapped with the Faces Servlet in web.xml. e.g. if in your web.xml if you have

<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/jsf/*</url-pattern>

then you have to also include that as the View ID. So, with the view id will be

/jsf/folder1/folder2/page.xhtml

But with JSF 2.0 you don't need to do all that navigation-rule in the faces-config file. In JSF 2.0 to navigate to another page all you need to do is return the view id from the action method.

@ManagedBean
@ViewScoped
public class MyBean {

    public String axnMethod() {
        return "view-id"; //this will result in navigation to view represented by view-id
    }

JSF 2.0 Navigation Not Working

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