Good day all and thanks for this project! I'm sorry if this is slightly off topic, but I think that masny in the community may have related experience that will be insightful to my problem/question. First some background; I'm attempting to build what I am referring to as a "composite application" where the screen display at any single point in time will consist of the combination of multiple, yet entirely independant and separate web apps (think portal - yet we cannot use a portal due to our requirements). Of course, each application must be functional independantly of the others, so I'm faced with the problem presented by the single request/response model of HTML ... namely all would typically need to be refreshed. I'm hoping to overcome this hurdle with AJAX - whereby, I could refresh just one portion (a subview???) of the display ajaxically. Does anyone know if this is possible? What follows is my presently failing attempts with AjaxAnywhere to accomplish this. Any and all insights, suggestions, alternatives will be greatly appreciated!
I'm brand new to AjaxAnywhere and am having what I hope is a newbie type problem that someone can easily point out for me. I'm using ajaxanywher-1.1.06 with MyFaces 1.1.1. I have page4.jsp with a single <aa:zoneJSF> as follows: <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"; prefix="c" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://ajaxanywhere.sourceforge.net/"; prefix="aa" %> <f:loadBundle basename="nuwss.sisp.sispweb.assets.messages" var="msgs"/> <f:view> <html> <head> </head> <body> <h2>At Page 4</h2> Errors: <h:messages/><br> <p><br> <c:import url="pages/refreshCounter.jsp"/> <p><br> <div style="border: medium solid black;"> <h:form id="irl"> <aa:zoneJSF id="contentPane"> <c:import url="pages/test.jsp"/> </aa:zoneJSF> </h:form> </div> </body> </html> </f:view> <script type="text/JavaScript" src="scripts/aa.js"></script> <script> ajaxAnywhere.getZonesToReload = function (url,submitButton) { //alert( "Submitting: " + url + " from " + submitButton ); return "contentPane"; } ajaxAnywhere.formName = "irl"; ajaxAnywhere.substituteFormSubmitFunction(); ajaxAnywhere.substituteSubmitButtonsBehavior(true); </script> As you can see, it JSTL imports pages/test.jsp that contains the main form content as follows: <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %> <% System.out.println( "In test.jsp" ); %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles- 1.1" prefix="tiles" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://ajaxanywhere.sourceforge.net/"; prefix="aa" %> <f:loadBundle basename="nuwss.sisp.sispweb.assets.messages" var="msgs"/> <f:verbatim>Hello, World (you are at </f:verbatim><h:outputText value="# {util.currentViewId}"/><f:verbatim escape="false">). <p> </f:verbatim> <f:verbatim escape="false"><p> What is your address: </f:verbatim> <h:panelGrid columns="2"> <h:outputText id="street1Label" value="Street1:"/> <h:panelGroup id="Street1"> <h:inputText id="Street1I" value="#{address.street1}"/> <h:message id="street1Msg" for="Street1"/> </h:panelGroup> <h:outputText id="street2Label" value="Street2:"/> <h:panelGroup id="Street2"> <h:inputText id="Street2I" value="#{address.street2}"/> <h:message id="street2Msg" for="Street2"/> </h:panelGroup> <h:outputText id="cityLabel" value="City:"/> <h:panelGroup id="City"> <h:inputText id="CityI" value="# {address.city}"/> <h:message id="cityMsg" for="City"/> </h:panelGroup> <h:outputText id="stateLabel" value="State:"/> <h:panelGroup id="State"> <h:inputText id="StateI" value="#{address.state}"/> <h:message id="stateMsg" for="State"/> </h:panelGroup> <h:outputText id="zipLabel" value="Zip:"/> <h:panelGroup id="Zip"> <h:inputText id="ZipI" value="# {address.zip}"/> <h:message id="zipMsg" for="Zip"/> </h:panelGroup> </h:panelGrid> <h:commandButton id="goButton" value="Submit" action="#{address.execute}" /> Upon successful form submission, the faces navigation events (note that I have verified that this works just fine prior to adding ajaxAnywhere) should take us to pages/altNext.jsp as follows: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" % > <% System.out.println( "In altNext.jsp" ); %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles- 1.1" prefix="tiles" %> <f:loadBundle basename="nuwss.sisp.sispweb.assets.messages" var="msgs"/> <f:subview id="nextPage"> <f:verbatim>Hello, World (you are at </f:verbatim><h:outputText value="# {util.currentViewId}"/><f:verbatim escape="false">). <p></f:verbatim> <f:verbatim escape="false"><p> Your address is: </f:verbatim> <h:outputText id="street1" value="# {address.street1}"/> <h:outputText id="street2" value="# {address.street2}"/> <h:outputText id="city" value="# {address.city}"/> <h:outputText id="state" value="# {address.state}"/> <h:outputText id="zip" value="# {address.zip}"/> <p> <h:commandLink id="backCommand" action="back"> <h:outputText id="backButton" value="Back"/> </h:commandLink> </f:subview> Bringing the app up works just fine (page4.jsp does successfully import pages/test.jsp and the rendered pages looks/acts just fine. Upon submitting the form, ajaxAnywhere handles the submit (I see the default Loading status indicator and have verified it through alerts). Debug statements have verified that my managed bean has executed as desired and that the subequent page (altNext.jsp) was indeed invoked as expected! The problem is that while the contentPane <aa:zoneJSF> is indeed updated - it is with entirely BLANK content (i.e. the span shrinks back to nothing but the border have there via CSS)????? The console does display two interesting/tell-tale items, namely: state = null tree = null >From a quick view of the source, this appears to come from MyFacesClientStateSavingPreSendHandler probably indicating that it does not have the state info it needs. However, I have verified that my faces STATE_SAVING_METHOD is indeed client and have also verified (vi browser view source) that the apparently associated hidden input field name="jsf_tree_64" is indeed part of the original page4.jsp content and within the form. What am I missing and/or doing wrong? Any and all help is greatly appreciated! TIA!
