FacesMessage with severity ERROR do not prevent calling an action method

Hi, I am using myfaces 1.1, icefaces 1.8.1 on WAS 6.0 The controller (backing bean) action methods handle RuntimeException from the service layer. Depending on the exception an exception handler will put an appropriate message into FacesContext. For that I have created a utility method:

Re: FacesMessage with severity ERROR do not prevent calling an action method

Hi, for clearification: does the click on the command button take place AFTER the page with the error messages was rendered? Because if it is so, this is the expected behavior. The messages in the FacesContext are only available for the current request, which is the one producing the error.

Re: FacesMessage with severity ERROR do not prevent calling an action method

Hi Madhav, the livecycle did not depend on messages in the context. To prevent executing actions and direct skip to renderPhase you need to call FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().renderResponse(); e.g. in your putMessage() method. Regards, Volker 2010/1/20 Madhav Bhargava

RE: FacesMessage with severity ERROR do not prevent calling an action method

True, you are right. The problem was that the first request goes as an AJAX request submitting on a part of the form. If there are errors, messages are shown. Now the user clicks on any other control which submits the rest of the page barring the one which was previously submitted. That caused

RE: FacesMessage with severity ERROR do not prevent calling an action method

Hi Volkar, Thanks for your response. I will add that to the method so that it does not have to be explicitly done by the developers in their action methods. From: weber.vol...@googlemail.com [mailto:weber.vol...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Volker Weber Hi Madhav, the livecycle did not