Chapter 10. Miscellaneous, Advanced Use Cases

In this chapter we will cover:

• The power of the PrimeFaces selectors

• Programmatic updating and scrolling with RequestContext

• Two ways to trigger JavaScript execution

• Adding AJAX callback parameters – validation within a dialog

• Navigating to another page in AJAX calls

• Polling – sending periodical AJAX requests

• Blocking page pieces during long-running AJAX calls

• Remembering the current menu selection

• Controlling form submission by DefaultCommand

• Clever focus management in forms

• Layout pitfalls with menus and dialogs

• Targetable messages with severity levels

• Leveraging Schedule's lazy loading feature