I'm new to JSF and RichFaces. I have a button that should call a method on bean. When I use
<h:commandButton action="#{loginBean.userLogin}" value="Login" />
it works fine, but when I click on
<a4j:commandButton action="#{loginBean.userLogin}" value="Login" />
nothing happens.
My bean code:
public class LoginBean {
@Size(min = 2, max = 20, message = "Must be betwen 2 and 20 chars")
private String login;
@Size(min = 1, message = "Please Enter your password")
private String password;
//getters and setters
public String userLogin() {
//user login code
}
}
My JSP Page code:
<body>
<f:view>
<div >
<h:form id="loginForm">
<h:panelGrid columns="3">
<h:outputLabel for="login" value="Login:" />
<h:inputText id="login" value="#{loginBean.login}" >
</h:inputText>
<rich:message for="login" />
<h:outputLabel for="password" value="Password:" />
<h:inputSecret id="password" value="#{loginBean.password}" />
<rich:message for="password" />
</h:panelGrid>
<div>
<h:commandButton action="#{loginBean.login}" value="Login" />
<a4j:commandButton action="#{loginBean.login}" value="Login" />
</div>
<div>
<a href="<%= request.getContextPath() %>/registration.jsf">Registration</a>
</div>
</h:form>
</div>
</f:view>
</body>
So as you can see I even added two buttons. One works fine and second doesn't do anything.
UPD: I didn't use RichFaces at first and my application worked fine. So I guess navigation rules, etc are fine. The thing that doesn't work is a4j:commandButton that I've just added.
UPD2: Here is my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" version="2.5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<display-name>webappsaichuk</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
</listener>
Your method must have a different name from your attribute.
public class LoginBean {
@Size(min = 2, max = 20, message = "Must be betwen 2 and 20 chars")
private String login;
@Size(min = 1, message = "Please Enter your password")
private String password;
//getters and setters...
public String userLogin() {
//user login code
}
}
<h:inputText id="login" value="#{loginBean.login}" styleClass="rowInput">
<h:commandButton action="#{loginBean.userLogin}" value="Login" />
<a4j:commandButton action="#{loginBean.userLogin}" value="Login" />
UPDATE
You should add the RichFaces filter to the web.xml (based on Getting started with RichFaces):
<!-- some context params to get better performance for RichFaces -->
<context-param>
<param-name>org.ajax4jsf.COMPRESS_SCRIPT</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.ajax4jsf.SKIN</param-name>
<param-value>classic</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.ajax4jsf.handleViewExpiredOnClient</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.LoadScriptStrategy</param-name>
<param-value>ALL</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.LoadStyleStrategy</param-name>
<param-value>ALL</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- main filter for RichFaces -->
<filter>
<display-name>Ajax4jsf Filter</display-name>
<filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>