JSF GET parameters or substitute

[David Segall]

I need to supply users of my Java Server Faces application with a
unique URL so that I can identify them when they arrive at the site.
The obvious way is with one, or in my case preferably two, GET
parameters. How do I read those parameters? My Internet searches have
not provided a neat answer and have indicated that the problem is
difficult. Is there an alternative that will yield the same result?

 

[Oliver Wong]

I need to supply users of my Java Server Faces application with a
unique URL so that I can identify them when they arrive at the site.
The obvious way is with one, or in my case preferably two, GET
parameters. How do I read those parameters? My Internet searches have
not provided a neat answer and have indicated that the problem is
difficult. Is there an alternative that will yield the same result?

When I google for "JSF GET", I get
http://marcchung.com/2005/01/24/performing-a-jsf-get-2/

The alternatives include: Don't use GET (use POST), or don't use JSF
(perhaps use PHP?)

- Oliver

 

[David Segall]

When I google for "JSF GET", I get
http://marcchung.com/2005/01/24/performing-a-jsf-get-2/

Many thanks for finding this for me. I don't think I found it but I
may have ignored it because I have no idea what it is doing. Could
somebody please explain at what point in the JSF cycle this code is
executed, what it does, how I ensure it is executed and how my JSF
page accesses the result.

The alternatives include: Don't use GET (use POST)

This is the "JSF way" but I don't see how you can do something like
sending a user an email saying "click here to confirm your
registration" without using GET.

, or don't use JSF
(perhaps use PHP?)

I don't like to think that I have spent this much time learning Java
and JSP/JSF only to give up and use PHP