Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Using NetBeans 6.5, Internet Explorer 7.

I am using the code example from BalusC at the site:
http://balusc.blogspot.com/2006/05/pdf-handling.html

I am having no problem reading and displaying the PDF file, but it displays it in the same window,
not a new window and it overwrites the current page, so I can't use the back arrow to fetch the page that is overwritten.
I am using a commandLink to fetch the file.

Does anyone know why I am not getting a new window or tab for the display?

The jsp portion for the link is:

<h:commandLink action="#{MainPage.linkAction3_action}" id="linkAction3"
          style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: 280px; top: 0px; position: absolute"
          target="_blank" value="Insurance Document"/>

The "MainPage.linkAction_action" method just makes a call to the display function:

    public String linkAction3_action() {
        sb1.setMessage("");
        dsb.setFilePath("C:/");
        dsb.setFileName("Insurance_Summary.pdf");
        dsb.downloadPDF();
        return null;
    }

And the downloadPDF() method is basically a cut and paste from the BalusC site;

    public void downloadPDF()
    {
        // Reference:   http://balusc.blogspot.com/2006/05/pdf-handling.html
        // Prepare.
        FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
        ExternalContext externalContext = facesContext.getExternalContext();
        HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) externalContext.getResponse();

        File file = new File(getFilePath(), getFileName());
        BufferedInputStream input = null;
        BufferedOutputStream output = null;

        try {
            // Open file.
            input = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file), DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);

            // Init servlet response.
            response.reset();
            response.setContentType("application/pdf");
            response.setContentLength( (int)file.length());
            response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + fileName + "\"");
            output = new BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream(), DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);

            // Write file contents to response.
            byte[] buffer = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE];
            int length;
            while ((length = input.read(buffer)) > 0) {
                output.write(buffer, 0, length);
            }

            // Finalize task.
            output.flush();
        }
        catch( Exception e )
        {
            System.out.println( "Error displaying file.");
        }
        finally {
            // Gently close streams.
            close(output);
            close(input);
        }

        // Inform JSF that it doesn't need to handle response.
        // This is very important, otherwise you will get the following exception in the logs:
        // java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot forward after response has been committed.
        facesContext.responseComplete();
    }