View expiry generally stinks in JSF 1.1; in 1.2, there's a ViewExpiredException, so the user should currently see an alert. That's not great - ideally, the main page would refresh or redirect automatically.
I'm disinclined to tackle view expiry in JSF 1.1, as it's generally just badly broken there. -- Adam On 8/31/07, Andrew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that if a view has expired, and > someone initiates a partial update, the page is just updated as if it > hadn't. This is quite confusing to the user as nothing happens when > they click on a link. > > What I would like to have happen, is the user redirected to the > requested view and be able to add a FacesMessage stating that the view > had expired. > > Has anyone done this or is it built in somewhere and I have just missed it? > > Example: > > Go to the trinidad demo, go into the component demo. Walk away from it > for a while. Click one of the links (like the component demo link). > Nothing happens. A second click works (since now the user has a view > in the back-end). > > Thanks, > Andrew >
