Opening external pages in dynamically generated dialogs

The regular usage of PrimeFaces' dialog is a declarative approach with p:dialog. Besides this declarative approach, there is a programmatic approach as well. The programmatic approach is based on a programmatic API where dialogs are created and destroyed at runtime. It is called Dialog Framework. Dialog Framework is used to open external pages in dynamically generated dialogs. The usage is quite simple; RequestContext provides two methods—openDialog and closeDialog—that allow the opening and closing of dynamic dialogs. Furthermore, Dialog Framework makes it possible to pass data back from the page displayed in the dialog to the caller page.

In this recipe, we will demonstrate all features available in Dialog Framework. We will open a dialog with options programmatically and pass parameters to the page displayed in this dialog. We will also meet the possibility of communicating between the source (caller) page and...