Re: JSF and URL's

I am not completely following what you are trying to do, but note that JSF
is not "restful" compliant. Basically what that means is JSF operates off of
POST's instead of GET's, and without GET's you don't have URL variables, and
without URL variables you don't have the parameter passing deep linking you
are looking for. Check out this podcast for more info:
http://timshadel.com/podcasts/Zdot-20060119-JsfPart1.mp3

Of course this is fairly easily remedied by just doing a straight up servlet
or JSP, but that is obviously taking you out of the JSF framework.

That's one of the reasons I am dropping JSF for Tapestry :-)  

HTH,
Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Smith, Mike
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:14 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] JSF and URL's

Thanks Pete. 
I actually have it like this, I just didn't grab it when I copied it to the
message.  I originally started this in Green Screen but for our purposes,
its not practical in Green screen(using hotspots).  This works currently
with my sample green screen program, but when I bring it in to my JSF its
treated as text not a link.  

Michael Smith
iSeries.mySeries.


-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Helgren [mailto:Pete@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:07 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] JSF and URL's


Mike,

I don't know how you are displaying the field contents but if it is in 
an HTML form but located on the local hard drive then your HTML would 
have an href tag followed by file:///and then the path.

Such as <a href="file:///C:\BILLS\F111504\A0015209.HTML">File 
description or name here</a>

I can't tell from your post just how you want to reference the file but 
in HTML this should work.

Pete Helgren


Smith, Mike wrote:

>I'm trying to access a database on the Iseries that is a 1 field 
>record. Basically this file is made up of a URL(ie.
>C:\BILLS\F111504\A0015209.HTML)
>However, when I run this, it doesn't display as a URL.  Its just an 
>output field.  Is it possible to read these records and have them 
>display as a URL.
>I'm using a 'Relational Record List' currently.  
>
>The idea is that these are locations of specific spool files converted 
>to HTML and I want to give a user the ability to open the HTML page.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Michael Smith
>iSeries.mySeries.
>
>  
>