I was thinking about a solution for the popup window problem in JSF.. someone has suggested to use a simple javascript, but any user action on the caller page that hasn't be submitted isn't notified to the backing beans, and validations are not executed.. in my case, the current row of a dataTable isn't update with the clicked one. So I got an idea, I'm sharing it to know if it is praticable.
The solution should be a new UICommand component, let's name it <s:commandPopupWindow>. When activated, the enclosing form is submitted as usual to itself (with validation executed if immediate is false, and all standard behaviours triggered with a normal commandLink or commandButton). But in the resulting page a javascript function is attached and automatically called in the onLoad body event handler, that opens the popupWindow. The tag should supports child <f:param> components to define parameters to be passed to the child window.. this could be done rendering an additional form on the resulting page with an hidden field for each <f:param> nested element, and having the javascript function submit that hidden form in the child window's target. What do you think about a solution of this type? I don't have any experience in writing JSF components, do you see any problem with implementing this behaviour? Cosma
