[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: view vs action attribute (Explanation needed)

2007-02-07 Thread SmokingAPipe
Action can be a call to a method in a session bean. If that method returns a string, that string is used as the view identifier. If that method has no return (void) or it returns null, then the view specified by view= is used as the view. If the action returns null AND there is no view=,

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: view vs action attribute (Explanation needed)

2007-02-07 Thread petemuir
view takes a view-id to navigate to. action takes an action method (el) or a string which specifies a logical (navigation) outcome (either JSF faces-config.xml or pages.xml). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=4012613#4012613 Reply to the post :

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: view vs action attribute (Explanation needed)

2007-02-07 Thread baz
Thanks to all of you. What is your opinion with my example code? Should it even render /editUser.xhtml? With your explanation, i think NO But it does. Ciao, Carsten View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=4012866#4012866 Reply to the post :

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: view vs action attribute (Explanation needed)

2007-02-07 Thread SmokingAPipe
Of course it should render editUser.xhtml in your example. That is the action you have specified. In most cases the action is a snip of EL that gets called, and the string that results from that call is used as the next view. In your case, you have used a static string instead of EL. It's