Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

First, you cannot access a JSF page without going through the JSF Servlet.

Your JSF tags will not be translated into html tag, this will generate an error page.

you can specify the matching url that you want to send through the Servlet.
here is a chunk of one of my web.xml file.

  <!-- Standard Action Servlet Mapping -->
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>  
  </servlet-mapping>

Furthermore,

you can also disallow access to some directories, but, i'm not using this technique now and i can't tell you if it's an usual technique.

Anyone correct me if i'm wrong.



Sebastien Degardin.

Thanks for the reply.

I understand how servlets are mapped. What I'm trying to figure out is how the FaceServlet translates a faces url into a JSP page. (ie. where is looks, what names it looks for etc.)

For example, with the mapping example you showed (*.faces), If I made made a call to http://server/myapp/mypage.faces, what would FacesServlet serve up? A jsp file called mypage.jsp? If so, where does it look for such a jsp?

In the example I was talking about before the mapping was /faces/*, which seemed to have the effect of just serving up all /faces/* paths with matches relative to the root of the application. For example, if i had a jsp in /mypage.jsp I could just called /faces/mypage.jsp and it would work. However, this also allowed me to access /faces/WEB-INF/web.xml which I not good (security problem IMO). An that was with a Java BluePrints application!

My question still remains. How can i tell FacesServlet where to look for pages, and stop things like the secrutiy problem above?

Thanks in advance,
Robert.

Well after reading lots more stuff on faces it seems that faces always just looks in the root of your application for a match, and if you dont like it to always look for jsp files (for example if you want it to look for jspx) you can do something like this for the RI:

<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
<param-value>.jspx</param-value>
</context-param>

Still not sure about that whole being able to access WEB-INF thing :S. Instead i'm just using a *.faces mapping rather than /faces/*.

Hello,

That's how i'm doing too.

faces ---> FacesServlet ----> JSP View

source suffixe ans target are configurable in web.xml file.


Sebastien Degardin