Problems with form and target _blank

[Thomas Peuss <th...@peuss.de>]

Hello!

I have a problem with a form that has commandlinks with target="_blank". 
The problem is that sometimes the new window opens with the same page I 
am coming from, sometimes it opens the correct new page I have defined 
in faces-config.xml. The behaviour is completely random. I tried to have 
a target="_blank" on form level and use commandbuttons. But the 
behaviour stays the same. So there must be something I am doing wrong. 
In the logfile are no exceptions or warnings.

Environment:
* Sun JDK 5.0
* Tomcat 5.5.16
* MyFaces 1.1.1

I attached the JSP for reference.

Thanks for any advice
Thomas

Re: Problems with form and target _blank

[Thomas Peuss <th...@peuss.de>]

Hello!

Thomas Peuss wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have a problem with a form that has commandlinks with target="_blank". 
> The problem is that sometimes the new window opens with the same page I 
> am coming from, sometimes it opens the correct new page I have defined 
> in faces-config.xml. The behaviour is completely random. I tried to have 
> a target="_blank" on form level and use commandbuttons. But the 
> behaviour stays the same. So there must be something I am doing wrong. 
> In the logfile are no exceptions or warnings.
> 
> Environment:
> * Sun JDK 5.0
> * Tomcat 5.5.16
> * MyFaces 1.1.1
> 

An update to this. With the Sun RI 1.1_01 it works perfectly well. So 
there is a difference in behaviour between MyFaces and the Sun RI.

I investigated further in the "randomness" of behaviour. I have now 
found out that everything works well on every second click. So if I 
click and close the new window and click again it works. But the next 
click does not work again.

CU
Thomas