Best practices for “Back” navigation links in JSF

Question

What is the best way to make \"Back\" links, so that the application stays consistent after navigation.

• onclick=\"history.go(-1)\". Is this very harmf

Answer 1

If you want to solve this by programmed navigation links, you can use a LinkedList as a stack. This way you can set boundaries for the number of stored navigation cases.

Example:

public class BackNavigationBean {

    public BackNavigationBean() {
        history = new LinkedList();
    }
    private LinkedList history;

    public LinkedList getHistory() {
        return history;
    }

    public void setLastPage(String navigationCase) {
        history.push(navigationCase);
        if (history.size() > 10) {
            history.pollLast();
        }
    }

    public String getLastPage() {
        return history.pop();
    }
}

So in 'forward' links:

And a 'back' link would be: