I tried to reproduce the same example in this question using JSF 2.2.6 and Tomcat 7.0: JSF navigation rule doesn't work on form submit, I also read the JSF returns blank/unparsed page with plain/raw XHTML/XML/EL source instead of rendered HTML output and respected all the recommandations provided by BalusC's answer, then I also consulted this question JSF 2 with HTML pages instead of XHTML because I want to use only .html files (I know i can use .xhtml but i need to understand the reason why this is not working).
I tried to make it simple as much as possible so any one could reproduce that:
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>facesServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>facesServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>faces/index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
<param-value>Development</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
<param-value>.html</param-value>
</context-param>
</web-app>
faces-config.xml (Navigation rules are not needed as it's provided dynamicly):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_2.xsd"
version="2.2">
<navigation-rule>
<display-name>index.html</display-name>
<from-view-id>/index.html</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>welcomePage</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/welcome.html</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
</faces-config>
BeanFilm.java:
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class BeanFilm implements Serializable {
private String recherche = new String();
public String getRecherche() {
return recherche;
}
public void setRecherche(String recherche) {
this.recherche = recherche;
}
public String doRecherche() {
return "welcomePage";
}
}
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:jsf="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf">
<head>
<title>Accueil</title>
</head>
<body jsf:id="body" >
<h1>Plain HTML5 with JSF</h1>
<form jsf:id="form">
<input type="text" jsf:id="recherche" jsf:value="#{beanFilm.recherche}"/>
<input type="submit" jsf:value="Submit" jsf:id="searchButton" jsf:action="#{beanFilm.doRecherche}"/>
</form>
<ui:debug/>
</body>
</html>
welcome.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:jsf="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf">
<head>
<title>Accueil</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome</h1>
</body>
</html>
The issue:
The exact problem is that when i click on the submit the method BeanFilm#doRecherch() is never called (using a breakpoint) and i can't really understand why? another information wich may be useful, is that in HTML code source attributes are still like jsf:id="searchButton"does this mean that the HTML wasn't generated?
