Defining Navigation Rules in JSF,Registering Managed Bean and Defining Navigation Rules in Login and Registration Application

Registering Managed Bean and Defining Navigation Rules

Managed Beans created for the application are required to be registered in the faces-config.xml file of the application. Managed bean name and its actual class name is defined within the "managed-bean" element and navigation rules are defined within the "navigation-rule" element of the xml file.

Full view of the faces-config.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces
Config 1.1//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd">
<faces-config>

<application>
<locale-config>
<default-locale>en</default-locale>
</locale-config>
</application>

<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>LoginForm</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>LoginForm</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>

<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>RetrievePassword</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>RetrievePassword</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>

<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>userForm</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>UserForm</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/user/login.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{LoginForm.validUser}</from-action>
<from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/success.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{LoginPage.validUser}</from-action>
<from-outcome>failure</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/login.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>forgotpassword</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/forgotpassword.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>useraccount</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/useraccount.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/user/forgotpassword.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{RetrievePassword.check}</from-action>
<from-outcome>passwordsendingsuccess</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/successpwdsend.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{RetrievePassword.check}</from-action>
<from-outcome>passwordsendingfail</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/forgotpassword.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/user/success.jsp</from-view-id>

<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{LoginForm.logout}</from-action>
<from-outcome>logoutsuccess</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/logout.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{userForm.editProfile}</from-action>
<from-outcome>editSuccess</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/useraccount.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>changePassword</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/changepassword.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/user/changepassword.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/changepasswordsuccess.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>failure</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/changepassword.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>*</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>gotomain</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/success.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/user/useraccount.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{userForm.saveUser}</from-action>
<from-outcome>successUserRegistration</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/newaccountsuccess.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{userForm.saveUser}</from-action>
<from-outcome>successUserUpdate</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/userUpdateSuccess.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{userForm.saveUser}</from-action>
<from-outcome>error</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/user/useraccount.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

</faces-config>