Calling another page in JSF - jsf

I have a simple JSF application with 2 .xhtml files. When I run the application, the 1st page displayed is welcome.xhtml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:head>
<title>Final Project</title>
</h:head>
<h:body bgcolor="white">
<div align="center" style="border:5px outset blue;">Welcome to the Product Inventory Application</div>
<br></br>
<br></br>
<h:commandButton value="View All Products" action="allProducts"/>
</h:body>
It displays fine, but when I press the View All Products button, I expect it to display the allProducts.xhtml facelet. But when I click the button, nothing happens at all, no exception or anything. The allProducts.xhtml page is just:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:head>
<title>All Products</title>
</h:head>
<h:body bgcolor="white">
<h3>Test</h3>
</h:body>
</html>

The problem is that an UICommand (<h:commandButton>, <h:commandLink> and similars) must be inside a form i.e. <h:form>. Change your welcome.xhtml page to:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:head>
<title>Final Project</title>
</h:head>
<h:body bgcolor="white">
<div align="center" style="border:5px outset blue;">Welcome to the Product Inventory Application</div>
<br></br>
<br></br>
<h:form>
<h:commandButton value="View All Products" action="allProducts"/>
</h:form>
</h:body>
More info:
h:commandLink / h:commandButton is not being invoked, reason 1. IMO, I suggest you to mark this question as a favorite if you're going to work a lot with JSF :).

I don't know the precise detail by heart, but here is the general idea. The action attribute of the button on the welcome page is referring to an 'allProducts' method of the backing bean. That method would have to return the string 'allProducts.xhtml' in order to have JSF present the products page.
So you have to introduce a backing bean for the welcome page and endow that class with a method 'allProducts'.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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enter code here
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
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I have a little problem with JSF,
I've made simple JSF page to learn:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form>
<h:outputText value="Hello."/>
<h:inputText value="#{login.name}"/>
<h:outputText value="Password"/>
<h:inputText value="#{login.password}"/>
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</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
And another page to show the values inserted to bean:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:head>
<title>welcome</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />
</h:head>
<h:body>
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</html>
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See also:
Difference between h:button and h:commandButton

templating JSF 2.0 Primefaces

So I have:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<h:body>
<ui:composition template="template.xhtml">
<ui:define name="content">
<h:outputText value="Test!!!" />
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
</h:body>
</html>
as my main page on my website and on template.xhtml:
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<h:panelGroup layout="block" styleClass="centercss">
<ui:insert name="content" />
</h:panelGroup>
</div>
...in the middle of the footer and the header views.
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Im using primefaces3.1.1 and I have javax.faces-2.1.14 + jsf-api and jsf-impl, so I think its primefaces 3 and JSF 2.
What is the problem here ?
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Example:
index.html
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
template="template.xhtml">
<ui:define name="content">
<h:outputText value="Test!!!" />
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>
template.xhtml
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
<h:body>
<div id="content">
<h:panelGroup layout="block" style="background-color: red;">
<ui:insert name="content" />
</h:panelGroup>
</div>
</h:body>
</html>

Ajax update dataTable from commandButton located in included file

I have such situation situation:
in file form.xhtml i have form used for filter some tables, i gave button "filter" defined here.
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is it possible to dynamic update dataTables from outside xhtml files included on page? if it is, how can i do it?
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test.xhtml:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<h:head></h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form id="dtForm">
<p:dataTable id="dataTable" />
</h:form>
<ui:include src="/include.xhtml" />
</h:body>
</html>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
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