During my RichFaces session at JBoss World 2009, I showed three small examples of using Ajax with RichFaces 3.3, JSF 2, and RichFaces 4. I thougth it would be a good idea to show you the difference or more correct the similarities between the three. I will be blogging more about RichFaces 4 and JSF…

If you have been using JSF for a while, you know that in some instances, request scope is too short and session scope is too long to store objects. This of course applies to a situation where you need to keep some data for longer than a request but less than session. If you use…

One of the new components in RichFaces 3.3.1 is rich:colorPicker. The component is based on jQuery widget and has the same functionality and events. Using the component is straight forward. Here is an example. JSF page: Initial rendering and opening the picker: After color selection:

RichFaces comes with a4j:status tag that allows to show AJAX request status. Here is an example how to create a page-level indicator, in other words, any action from this page will trigger the status to be displayed. It’s one way to tell the user that something is happening. Technically, the a4j:status is associated with the…

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Another great post by Ilya Shaikovsky (Exadel) and RichFaces team member on displaying search results in multiple tabs.

User registration solution using JBoss Seam with JSF / RichFaces and Hibernate User authentication / registration with JSF / RichFaces, Spring, and Hibernate Thanks to thelabdude for providing these excellent tutorials.

Ilya Shaikovsky (Exadel) blogged about how to make a rich:modalPane to be non-modal. If you are on Linux like me, you have to add this right after the rich:modalPanel: … removeTabHandlingFromPanel(#{rich:component(‘mp’)}); function removeTabHandlingFromPanel(modalPanelComponent){ modalPanelComponent.lastOnfocus = function(event){}; modalPanelComponent.firstOnfocus = function(event){}; modalPanelComponent.processAllFocusElements = function(event){}; modalPanelComponent.processTabindexes = function(event){}; modalPanelComponent.restoreTabindexes = function(event){}; modalPanelComponent.preventFocus = function(event){}; modalPanelComponent.restoreFocus = function(event){}; }