how to redirect to a Servlet from a commandButton in xhtml

Question

I\'ve been having this trouble for a couple of days. hopefully this is cleaner and someone who\'s done this before can help me out!

I\'m building a webApp with JSF 2

Answer 1

JSF is executed within the Faces servlet and with the standard navigation you can only navigate to jsf views. To open a servlet use instead. Another option is to avoid using a servlet and to serve your pdf file from an action method like it's described here: http://www.winstonprakash.com/articles/jsf/file_download_link.htm