Re: JSF and URL's

["Smith, Mike" <Mike_Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First let me say, I'm not much of a web guy/java guy, so I'm not sure I
understand exactly what your saying, but I will take a look at the
podcast.  
That said, let me try to explain what I am shooting for. 
(btw, I'm just playing with this, so a lot of the details haven't been
fully worked out yet)

Ultimately, what I'm trying to accomplish, is a way for a user to
display a list of html reports and open them up by clicking on a link.  

In more detail. 

We have a situation where our customer reps, need to pull up a copy of a
bill.  They want to see the actual image of the bill.  So the idea is
create folders somewhere(for now on my C driver(proof of concept)).
When the bill is created, the spool file is converted to an html
document and stored in these folders by date.  
Now ideally, I want the customer service rep to enter in Date/Account,
and then I want to display any records for the entered date/account.
The record has just 1 field.  It contains the path to this html report. 
After the records are displayed, the user selects one(usually would only
be one) and it opens up the html document.  

I hope that makes sense.  

Michael Smith
iSeries.mySeries.


-----Original Message-----
From: albartell [mailto:albartell@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:35 AM
To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] 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.
>
>  
>