Richfaces and h:commandLink

[enda]

I have encountered a weird behavior with rich:tabPanel

<rich:tabPanel switchType="ajax">
<rich:tab label="Something">
..

When I use AJAX switch and some of my tabs has an h:commandLink in it. It does not work. Weird is that h:commandButton works just fine

<h:commandButton value="export" action="#{bean.export(row.id)}"/> -- works
<h:commandLink value="export" action="#{bean.export(row.id)}"/> -- does not work

Did someone encountered it too? Thanks

ref: http://www.seamframework.org/Community/RichfacesAndHcommandLink

[sergeysmirnov]

This is one of the most popular problem.
h:commandLink was designed in the pre-Ajax era when nobody has an idea to re-render part of the page, but not the whole page. h:commandLink is designed to be re-rendered only together with the whole form. Any ajax kills it otherwise.

rich:tabPanel switchType="ajax" means and ajax.

There are no other reason for a4j:htmlCommandLink than solve this problem.

Read:
http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/htmlCommandLink.jsf?c=htmlCommandLink
http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/form.jsf?c=form

[enda]

Thank you this is it