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xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
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label="Leverage the whole set of JSF benefits while working with AJAX">
Ajax4jsf is fully integrated into the JSF lifecycle. While other frameworks only
give you access to the managed bean facility, Ajax4jsf advantages the action and value
change listeners as well as invokes server-side validators and converters during the
AJAX request-response cycle.
</rich:panelBarItem>
<rich:panelBarItem
label="Add AJAX capability to existing JSF applications">
The framework is implemented using a component library. The library set Ajax
functionality into existing pages, so there is no need to write any JavaScript
code or to replace existing components with new Ajax one. Ajax4jsf enables page-wide
Ajax support instead of the traditional component-wide support and it gives the
opportunity to define the event on the page. An event invokes an Ajax request and areas
of the page which are synchronized with the JSF Component Tree after changing the data
on the server by Ajax request in accordance with events fired on the client.
</rich:panelBarItem>
<rich:panelBarItem
label="Write your own custom rich components with built-in AJAX support">
Component Development Kit (CDK) is a design-time extension for Ajax4jsf. The CDK includes
a code-generation facility and a templating facility using a JSP-like syntax. These
capabilities help to avoid a routine process of a component creation. The component
factory works like a well-oiled machine allowing the creation of first-class rich
components with built-in Ajax functionality even more easily than the creation of
simpler components by means of the traditional coding approach.
</rich:panelBarItem>
<rich:panelBarItem
label="Package resources with the application's Java classes ">
In addition to its core, Ajax functionality of Ajax4jsf provides an advanced
support for the different resources management: pictures, JavaScript code, and
CSS stylesheets. The resource framework makes possible to pack easily these
resources into Jar files along with the code of your custom components.
</rich:panelBarItem>
<rich:panelBarItem label="Easily generate images on-the-fly">
Resource framework can generate images on-the-fly so that it becomes possible
to create images using the familiar approach of the Java graphic2D library.
</rich:panelBarItem>
<rich:panelBarItem
label="Create a modern rich user interface look-and-feel with skins-based technology">
Ajax4jsf provides a skinnability feature that allows easily define and manage
different color schemes and other parameters of the UI with the help of named
skin parameters. Hence it is possible to access the skin parameters from JSP
code and the Java code (e.g. to adjust generated on-the-fly images based on
the text parts of the UI). Note: skinnability is not an equivalent of traditional
CSS, but a complement.
</rich:panelBarItem>
<rich:panelBarItem
label="Test the components, actions, listeners, and pages as you are creating them">
An automated testing facility is in our roadmap for the near future. This facility
will generate test cases for your component as soon as you develop it. The testing
framework will not just test the components, but also any other server-side or
client-side functionality including JavaScript code. What is more, it will do all
of this without deploying the test application into the Servlet container.
</rich:panelBarItem>
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