JSF, Icefaces, Portlets and Requestparameter

Question

Hi there,

I'm trying ton include some JSF into my webapp. For the components lib I've choosed ICEFaces, now I'm facing a problem:

ICEFaces doesn't trigger the processAction method which is required to get requestparameters. In my other "normal" portlets I can do - in JBoss Portal - e.g.

 /portal/dashboard/hellpPortlet_Window?action=1&query=Works

With Icefaces I cannot do that

/portal/dashboard/jsfPortlet_Windows?query=Works

is always nulll.

I'm already accessing the Externalcontext in my managed-bean (scope request). Does anyone knows an other approach to get the request params?

Answer 1

We used ICEFaces, and regret it, if you stil didn't do too much, for web UI, I'd go with something else. GWT, EXT-JS (the LGPL Branch), Flex or JQuery, but ICEFaces still causes nightmares to some of our developers...