When i click on any link it should Open in the same New Window in JSF, Primefaces

Question

In my JSF page i have few Links{link1,link2,link3,link4}-{Student Id's}.

What i tried is when i click on the Link it Opens the Student-Information in a "NEW WINDOW".

When i am clicking on the next Link it is Opening a New Window,but i want to open in the Same New Window i.e., the TARGET should be the Same NEW Window which is opened.

Diagramatical Representation:

Target Link to Same Window

My Piece of Code which i had tried from collecting things from STACKOVERFLOWOpen Page in New Window :

<p:dataTable id="studentDtTble" var="studData" value="#{studentController.dataList}">
        <p:columnGroup type="header">
            <p:row>
                    <p:column headerText="StudentId"></p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="StudentName"></p:column> 
                    <p:column headerText="Add" ></p:column>     
            </p:row>
        </p:columnGroup>
            <p:column>
                <p:commandLink id="sidlink" action="/studentinfo.xhtml" target="_blank">  
                    <h:outputText value="#{studData.studentId}" styleClass="txtlink" />
                </p:commandLink>
            </p:column>
            <p:column>
               <h:outputText value="#{studData.studentName}" />
            </p:column>
            <p:column >
                <p:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{studData.add}" />
            </p:column>
    </p:dataTable>

Edited After @Nosnhoj Reply :When i Click on any of the SID Link then there Details Should Opened in the "Same NEW Window".

@Makky i had pasted a sample code hope it may help.As, i am new to JSF, Primefaces.i'm unable to make it up. correct me if i am going wrong any where. Thanks for the reply — 09Q71AO534, Jan 01 '14 at 18:34
Can you not use Dialog box instead of showing results in different tab ?? — Makky, Jan 01 '14 at 18:50
@Makky My Reqirement is that i have a Page of Student Information to be Displayed, So i want to Show them as a Separate Page. The Dialog Box is a good One which can be useful, but it is'nt the case i want to be..i added a comment for the answer Below — 09Q71AO534, Jan 02 '14 at 05:45

nosnhoj · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02T07:34:03.443

Use <h:commandLink> instead of <p:commandLink>.

I tried your code and make a little change like this:

<h:commandLink id="sidlink" action="#{studentController.selectStudent(studData)}" target="_blank">  
    <h:outputText value="#{studData.studentId}" styleClass="txtlink" />
</h:commandLink>

I changed <p:commandLink> to <h:commandLink>, and call a method in the backing bean to set the selected Student.(For the New Window should need the student information.)

Here is the code of studentController.selectStudent :

private Student selectedStu;

public String selectStudent(Student stu) {
    selectedStu = stu;
    return "/studentinfo.xhtml";
}

And the following is the code of New Window：

 <h:form>
    <h:commandLink value="Another Link" action="/anotherinfo.xhtml" target="_self"/>
    <br/>
    Student: <h:outputText value="#{studentController.selectedStu.studentName}"/>
 </h:form>

Which is just showing name of the selected Student, and another link you want.
Note that the target attribute is _self because you want the new page show in the same window.

Finally, the anotherinfo.xhtml is just an empty page I created via NetBeans, so there's no need to post it.

And here's what you may see:
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After clicking the id of "Johnson" :
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After clicking "Another Link" :
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Update

As @User2561626 explain what he/she intended to, I update my answer as follow:
If you want a New Window pop up in stead of New Tab, you should change the code like:

<p:commandLink id="sidlink" actionListener="#{studentController.selectStudent(studData)}" oncomplete="window.open('studentinfo.xhtml', 'newwindow', 'width=300, height=250');">  
    <h:outputText value="#{studData.studentId}" styleClass="txtlink" />
</p:commandLink>

I change <h:commandLink> back to <p:commandLink>, make action as actionListener because we want to set the selected Student first, finally I add window.open in oncomplete attribute so that the new page will open in a new window but not tab.
Of course we need to edit the method studentController.selectStudent(), like this:

public void selectStudent(Student stu) {
    selectedStu = stu;
}

As you can see, the return type is void now, and the only thing this method do is just set the selected Student.
Hope this may help.

The answer is good! It is working Fine. but, my requirement is that if we click on the sid Consider in your scenario u had clicked on sid:2 and then the "NEW WINDOW" had opened.then again if i click on sid:4 then the same "NEW WINDOW" should be Refreshed and display the StudentInfo. — 09Q71AO534, Jan 02 '14 at 05:43
how can it open in the Same window which is opened, then for every link i click it opens a NEW Window, there the old Window Remains Opened. — 09Q71AO534, Jan 02 '14 at 05:59
The `target="_new"` is working fine.but, i am surprised how can it open in the same Window.. It is opening a Window as a new "tab", can we make it open in a "New Window" — 09Q71AO534, Jan 02 '14 at 06:11
It Worked fine! but As on the Second Click it is not Focusing on the New Window. i tried with `window.open('studentinfo.xhtml', 'newwindow', 'width=300, height=250').focus();` it worked ! Thanks For your Support — 09Q71AO534, Jan 02 '14 at 15:00

When i click on any link it should Open in the same New Window in JSF, Primefaces

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