Ajax and JSF

[Dave <ja...@yahoo.com>]

Has anyone made Ajax work with JSF?  how is the integration? is it a good idea?
Thanks.
Dave

		
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Re: Ajax and JSF

[Alex Coles <al...@gmail.com>]

AJAX-ifying some individual components - such as a autocomplete drop-down
menu - is actually not that difficult to achieve in JSF. Based on code from
the Blueprints catalog, I've played with it a little bit and it seems to
work pretty well. What seems to be much more difficult to achieve is, rather
than simply having one-or two components AJAX-ified but still using the same
postback mechanism (and preserving the JSF lifestyle), is to output the
entire page as something which is AJAX-ified. In other words making all
components render client-side and partial page refresh is a much taller
order.

You might try AJAX Anywhere, which is a standard JSP taglib that can
AJAX-ify portions of a page, even if its using JSF components.

Demo here: http://www.ideologiciels.com:8080/ajaxAnywhereDemo/facesFrame.jsp
Page here: http://ajaxanywhere.sourceforge.net/

On 10/13/05, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Dave wrote:
> > Has anyone made Ajax work with JSF? how is the integration? is it a
> > good idea?
> > Thanks.
> > Dave
> >
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> >
> there are the sun blueprints, ajax anywhere
> http://ajaxanywhere.sourceforge.net/, some ajax stuff has made it
> already into the sandbox, the ajax lib by this russian guy
> http://smirnov.org.ru/en/ajax-jsf.html, more to come soon.
>
> The problem is that ajax is hard to combine with jsf because both
> methotologies are not too compatible, there always is the issue once you
> start to alter the dom on the client side you have to alter the backend
> tree in some way, and also you should not trigger the jsf phases during
> an ajax call because this is somewhat a different entity.
>
>
>

Re: Ajax and JSF

[Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at>]

Dave wrote:
> Has anyone made Ajax work with JSF?  how is the integration? is it a
> good idea?
> Thanks.
> Dave
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
> <http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/>
> 
there are the sun blueprints, ajax anywhere
http://ajaxanywhere.sourceforge.net/, some ajax stuff has made it
already into the sandbox, the ajax lib by this russian guy
http://smirnov.org.ru/en/ajax-jsf.html, more to come soon.

The problem is that ajax is hard to combine with jsf because both
methotologies are not too compatible, there always is the issue once you
start to alter the dom on the client side you have to alter the backend
tree in some way, and also you should not trigger the jsf phases during
an ajax call because this is somewhat a different entity.