Configuring Navigation Rules
As explained in Navigation Model (page 654), navigation is a set of rules for choosing the next page to be displayed after a button or hyperlink component is clicked. Navigation rules are defined in the application configuration resource file.
Each navigation rule specifies how to navigate from one page to a set of other pages. The JavaServer Faces implementation chooses the proper navigation rule according to which page is currently displayed.
After the proper navigation rule is selected, the choice of which page to access next from the current page depends on the action method that was invoked when the component was clicked and the logical outcome that is referenced by the component's tag or was returned from the ...
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