How to use Ajax with JSF 2.0?

Question

I want to implement Ajax on my JSF web project. I googled and found that ICEFaces is supporting Ajax with JSF. Yet I dont know the usability of it.

Any one has exper

Answer 1

It is quite simple and elegant to use Ajax in JSF but you should not abuse because of debugging constraints.

HTML page Fragment :

Backing bean fragment :

public boolean handleTabChange() {
    ExternalContext externalContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
    String index = externalContext.getRequestParameterMap().get("tabIndex");
    setTabIndex(Integer.parseInt(index));
    return true;
}