Re: URLs and backing beans

2007-03-24 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 3/24/07, Brad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an application which needs to handle urls that have the following patterns: http://localhost:8080/myapp/projects/office1 http://localhost:8080/myapp/projects/office2 http://localhost:8080/myapp/projects/office2/subofficeA Conceptually I

Re: URLs and backing beans

2007-03-24 Thread Brad Smith
Thank you Rahul. Yes the RESTful-ness is intentional. I will look these references over. Brad On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 12:12 -0400, Rahul Akolkar wrote: > > > > > The RESTful-ness of the URLs (if that was intentional) makes it seem > like Shale Remoting [1] could be helpful here. In which case,

RE: URLs and backing beans

2007-03-24 Thread Kito D. Mann
Brad, I often use a Servlet filter for this type of stuff, but a cleaner approach might be to use Shale Remoting (http://shale.apache.org/remoting). The process() method in your MethodBindingProcessor (http://shale.apache.org/1.0.4/shale-remoting/apidocs/org/apache/shale/remot ing/impl/MethodBindi

RE: URLs and backing beans

2007-03-25 Thread Brad Smith
Thanks Kito. I was also considering a servlet filter approach but am leaning towards a custom Processor implementation based on Shale's remoting as you and Rahul recommend. My only lingering concern is the need to have the url end in the same extension that the JSF servlet is expecting (html in t

Re: URLs and backing beans

2007-03-25 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 3/25/07, Brad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Kito. I was also considering a servlet filter approach but am leaning towards a custom Processor implementation based on Shale's remoting as you and Rahul recommend. My only lingering concern is the need to have the url end in the same ex

Re: URLs and backing beans

2007-03-25 Thread Brad Smith
Thanks Craig. Your suggestion on URL syntax is better. It would be very useful to have a simple RESTful URL mechanism in JSF. Greetings from Bend. Brad On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:44 -0700, Craig McClanahan wrote: > Perhaps > > http://localhost:8080/myapp/projects/office2.html > > might be a

Re: URLs and backing beans

2007-03-26 Thread Brad Smith
While looking further into this issue I ran across this web page: http://www.jsffaq.com/Wiki.jsp?page=HowToMaskActualURLToTheJSFPage which is a copy of the response in this forum thread: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=427&threadID=511578 The solution advocated here is a custom Vi