Dev community:
I'd like to propose a new RF tag, rich:verbatim. The idea for this tag came from some conversations in the Seam group where I needed essentially a servlet-like ability to bypass JSF, which was too slow for a particular need I had (rendering very large tables of 1000s of rows). The problem I had was that servlets don't have practical access to Seam's contexts (where the data is located).
I could use (and I tried) JSF's f:verbatim tag, which appeared to work on first blush. But it turns out this tag (at least in my JSF library's implementation) seems to cache output so that if I wrap an f:verbatim with an a4j:outputPanel and rerender it, it would rerender from the cache--not a good thing if the backing bean holding the table data changed!
So to fix this problem I created a trival RF tag, rich:verbatim, which simply takes the content of the value attribute and dumps it into the dom.
I implemented the code in the 3.3.1.GA source and it works like a charm--rerendering and all. I can now render tables >1000 rows in sub-second time...perfect for my application. (Of course the rows rendered are "raw", i.e. no RF elements, but that is the constraint of this feature.)
I'm very happy with it, and I hope you will consider it a worthwhile addition to the RF library going forward.
The JIRA w/code is here: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-7464
Thanks,
Greg
My comment from Jira:
Thank you very much for the idea and the patch. We'll review for a future release, but that likely be in the 4.0 or 4.1 timeframe because of priorities with JSF 2.0 integration.
We would need you to sign the JBoss contributor agreement before we could do anything with this by the way - https://www.jboss.org/contribute
Thanks Again.