JSF Tutorial - JSF Page Redirection Example

JSF by default performs a server page forward while navigating from one page to another and the URL of the application does not change.

To enable the page redirection, append faces-redirect=true at the end of the view name.

The following code shows how to add redirect to JSF page.

Page1 is Forward while Page2 is Redirect.

<h:form>
   <h3>Forward</h3>
   <h:commandButton action="page1" value="Page1" />
   <h3>Redirect</h3>
   <h:commandButton action="page2?faces-redirect=true" value="Page2" />
</h:form>

Example

The following code is from demo.xhtml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"   
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
 
    <h:body>
      <h2>This is start.xhtml</h2>
 
    <h:form>
        <!--<h:commandButton action="page1?faces-redirect=true" value="Page1" />-->
        <h:commandButton action="page1" value="Page1" />
      </h:form>
 
    </h:body>
</html>

The following code is from page1.xhtml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"   
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
 
    <h:body>
      <h2>This is page1.xhtml</h2>
    </h:body>
</html>

The following code is from UserBean.java.

package com.java2s.common;


import java.io.Serializable;

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;

@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class UserBean implements Serializable {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
  

}

Download Page-Redirection.zip

To RUN

Copy the generated WAR file from the target folder to Tomcat deployment folder and run Tomcat-Install-folder/bin/startup.bat.

After Tomcat finish starting, type the following URL in the browser address bar.

http://localhost:8080/simple-webapp/demo.xhtml