I actually got the problem wrong, it's not the fact that the null return prevented the handler from firing, but rather my condition to determine if it was a page request rather than a component request was insufficient:
protected boolean isPageRequest() { return !request.isXHR() && request.getMethod()=="GET"; } And it was ending up redirecting. What is the preferred way to check in an onActivate method whether the originating request is a page request or simply a component like an actionLink making a request? -- View this message in context: http://tapestry.1045711.n5.nabble.com/Redirect-onActivate-how-to-handle-ActionLink-requests-tp5718883p5718894.html Sent from the Tapestry - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org