Sometimes one wants to update some cells of a table using AJAX. Re-render the whole table is mostly not an option ,especially if the table(s) are very large. Using the Richfaces framework it’s quite simply.

This may be the JSF code:

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<rich:subTable value="#{myBackingBean.descriptions}" var="oneTableRow …

Sometimes an AJAX request takes some time. Because of the asynchronous of AJAX the user does not note that there is something happening on the server. So it is a nice thing to display the status of the request.

Using Richfaces/A4J you can use the tag to display such …

Today I spent quite some time to figure out why the following piece of code causes a Duplicate Id Error Message.

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    <rich:columns value="#{myBean.listWithFields}" var="field" index="myIndex">
        <h:inputText id="#{field.identifier}" value="#{field.value}" rendered="#{field.inputField}"/>
        <h:outputText id="#{field.identifier}" value="#{field.value}" rendered …

Contrary to most of other configuration files, placing the struts.xml configuration file in the WEB-INF folder does not work. But you can place it, eg. in the root source folder of your application. I spent about two hours after cleaning/building my test project in Eclipse without realizing, that …

Using "normal" JSF one has often the problem of returning properties somewhat more complex than simple Strings or native data types. In these cases, the generation may for example need a connection to the database which increases the costs additionally. Usually, you would place the construction in the getter method …

Just use the escape attribute to avoid HTML code to be encoded again.\

For example with the following JSF fragment

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    <h:outputText value="#{messages['TITEL']}" escape="false"/>
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this part of the message.properties is displayed correct

TITEL=About Ü and Ö

If you get the Exception

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    javax.faces.el.PropertyNotFoundException
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the specified property cannot be found in the bean.

First thing is to check the accessors and their accessibility. In my case I had all needed accessors and their accessibility, but they were specified in an Inner Class within the bean …

Exception java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.faces.config.WebConfiguration cannot be cast to com.sun.faces.config.WebConfiguration while deploying EAR in JBOSS AS.

If you get the exception mentioned above while you try to deploy your EAR file on the JBoss Application Server, it might help to remove the …

Using in comments in JSF web pages seems to be a kind of a problem. At least using Apache MyFaces (http://myfaces.apache.org) / Apache MyFaces Tomahawk (http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk/) or JBoss Seam (http://www.seamframework.org), because these two implementation just don’t interpret comments as comments …

If you get the above Exception while using testng to test your JBOSS Seam application within the Eclipse IDE, try to remove the line //<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM “http://beust.com/testng/testng-1.0.dtd”>// from your XML test configuration file, eg. your XML file looks like

<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http …