An Introduction To JBoss RichFaces

I have a question:

Your "Save" link is in the form in the modal panel and it's going to re-render the columns "name" and "email" which are in another form. How can RichFaces know which form that has the "name" and "email" columns to re-render?

Max, I know you're a busy guy, but I want to pick up this thread.  I'm running on JBoss 5.0 and have the same problem shahasma99 is having.  After the first deploy (before the modal panel is added), all I see it the title.  I do have the @PostConstruct before the init(), but when I set a breakpoint on the init(), it doesn't seem to be getting there.  Is there some JBoss configuration I'm missing?  Or is it just not possible to break there?

 TIA, Jean

Hi Maxkatz,

 I'm trying to use the ajaxKeys options with a dataTable as you have described in the article and I've got it working with the dataTable and even using the dataScroller control.

 However, once I enable sorting in the data table, the rows do not refresh properly.  If the items are sorted in the same order as they are in the List the correct rows are redrawn, but sorting them in any other order results in the required rows not being highlighted.

  I'm using Seam 2.1.1.GA and RichFaces 3.3.0.GA, the table looks like this (the keepalive is included but not shown and I've removed some of the columns)..

<rich:dataTable id="testDataTable" value="#{testBean.data}" var="data" ajaxKeys="#{testBean.ajaxKeys}" sortMode="single" rows="20">
	<rich:column sortBy="#{data.id}" id="pid" style="#{data.viewing ? 'background: red' : '' }">
		<f:facet name="header">
			<h:outputText value="ID"/>
		</f:facet>
		<a4j:commandLink style="display: block; width: 100%;" action="#{testBean.SelectView(data)}"  value="#{data.id}" reRender="pid,param1"/>
	</rich:column>

	<rich:column sortBy="#{data.testParam1}" id="param1" style="#{data.viewing ? 'background: red' : '' }">
		<f:facet name="header">
			<h:outputText value="Param 1"/>
		</f:facet>
		<a4j:commandLink style="display: block; width: 100%;" action="#{testBean.SelectView(data)}"  value="#{data.testParam1}" reRender="pid,param1"/>
	</rich:column>
</rich:dataTable>

  And the appropriate bits from the testBean..

private List<TestData> data = new ArrayList<TestData>();

private TestData selectedItem = null;
private HashSet<Integer> ajaxKeys = new HashSet<Integer>();
	
public void SelectView(TestData data) {
    this.ajaxKeys.clear();
    this.ajaxKeys.add(this.data.indexOf(this.selectedItem));
    this.selectedItem.setViewing(false);
    this.selectedItem = data;
    this.selectedItem.setViewing(true);
    this.ajaxKeys.add(this.data.indexOf(this.selectedItem));
    System.out.println(this.ajaxKeys.toString());
}
	
public TestData getSelectedItem() {
    return selectedItem;
}

public void setSelectedItem(TestData selectedItem) {
    this.selectedItem = selectedItem;

public Set<Integer> getAjaxKeys() {
    return this.ajaxKeys;
}

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks,

 Nick