Hi all,
I have a JSF frontend to a webapp served via tomcat. I want to be able to 'branch' to a page external to the web-app then have that page branch back to the original JSF page. Complications are that (1) occasionally a reasonably large chunk of data needs to be passed back and forth; and (2) the url of the external page is dynamic (i.e. read from a data value supplied at runtime). I had it working via request parameters and redirects, but that solution couldn't handle the data sizes sometimes involved. I tried using session attributes to pass the data, but that only works if the page is inserted into the webapp itself. Should I use redirect, forward, dispatch, what??
Thanks for any insights.