h:commandButton and h:commandLink

• The primary components for navigating within a JSF application
• h:commandButton renders as a button; h:commandLink as a link
• When a button or link is activated, a POST request sends the form data back to the server

h:button and h:link

• Like h:commandButton and h:commandLink, but when a button or link is activated, a bookmarkable GET request sends the form data back to the server

h:outputLink

• Generates an HTML anchor element that takes the user to a resource outside the JSF framework

These tags must be within the scope of an h:form tag to have their values communicated to the server.

Simple examples are shown in this section. See tables 4-18 and 4-21 on pp. 135—139 for a listing of the available attributes for these tags.

See Example Applications for example applications that use them.