Ajax-enabling JSF applications
JSF allows us to easily implement Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) functionality into our web applications by simply employing the <f:ajax>
tag and CDI named beans, without needing to implement any JavaScript code or having to parse JSON strings to implement Ajax with JSF.
The following illustrates a typical usage of the <f:ajax>
tag:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
<h:head>
<title>JSF Ajax Demo</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h2>JSF Ajax Demo</h2>
<h:form>
<h:messages/>
<h:panelGrid columns="2">
<h:outputText value="Echo input:"/>
<h:inputText...