[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Entry Point

[texan]

After almost a year of working with Seam and JSF, I still struggle with the issue of external entry points.

That is, I want to load the "main" page of the application with some data, but I don't want to load that page that way every time.

I have accomplished this so far with the following type of URL:

http://host/app/mypage.seam?actionMethod=load&someParam=abc

In an old-style servlet/struts app, you really never load JSPs directly.  You always invoke a url that forwards or redirects to a JSP.

In JSF/Seam, this happens naturally when you click a button or a command link.  However, it's not clear to me what the "proper" way is to invoke an action as the app's entry point (as opposed to some REST-style page that always invokes a particular action).

I particularly have trouble with the page action (in the pages.xml file) approach when working with IceFaces, as the page action is getting invoked every time a "partial submit" component is invoked.



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