p:commandButton does not work in <form>. Possible Bug

I use form authentication with jdbc_security_realm setup in Glassfish, for my login. Here is my code

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                 <form action="j_security_check">                   
                    <h:outputLabel value="Login Email:"/>
                    <h:inputText id="j_username" size="28"/> <br/><br/>
                    <h:outputLabel value="Password:"/>
                    <h:inputSecret id="j_password" size="28"/> <br/><br/>
                    <h:commandButton id="login" value="Login"/>
                </form>


Now the above will successfully login me into the system. However, I want to use p:commandButton instead of h:commandButton, since the skinning look better. If I change from h:commandButton to p:commandButton, I get this error.

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javax.faces.FacesException: CommandButton : "login" must be inside a form element


p:commandButton requires to have h:form. I feel like this is a bug, since h:commandButton perform perfectly but I got error with p:commandButton.

I have post a issue here: http://code.google.com/p/primefaces/iss ... il?id=1542

Hi KingdomHeart,

Have you tried p:commandButton with ajax=false?

hi,

change your <form> to be <h:form>. that should do it.

Chris

@kwintesencja: yeah it does not work with ajax=false
@cbmyers: If you take a look at my code above, in this particular case, I am simply forced to use <form> because of the need to submit to a non-JSF service "j_security_check".

hy. this topic is very old.. but i have the same problem now..

is there already a solution or will it be improved in the new primefaces 3 version?

If you want to use JAAS form-based authentication without being restricted to a specific HTML structure you can use the new Servlet 3.0 API and design your own login form. See this page for more information:

http://it-result.me/servlet-3-programmatic-authentication-api/comment-page-1/

Answer 6 of this also has a pretty nice way to do it, look at update 2. Same idea as above.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2206 ... ng-jsf-2-0

Another solution was discussed by Oleg on an unrelated issue post here:

http://code.google.com/p/primefaces/issues/detail?id=1586

He said:

Hi,

You can solve your problem with j_security_check as follows

<h:form id="login" onsubmit="document.login.action = j_security_check;">

or better (if you not sure about client id of your form)

<h:form id="login" onsubmit="document.#{p:component('login')}.action='j_security_check';">

Best regards. Oleg.

Nice! Good suggestion, thanks!