Does RichFaces support Multiple browser windows/tabs

[mail2bansi]

We are using JSF 1.2, MyFaces 1.2.2, RichFaces 3.2
One of the biggest problems of JSF appears to be that it requires that most backing beans be placed into session scope.

Is there anything you can do on the technical side to work around these problems that stem from storing e.g. a ListDataModel in the session? How do you handle master detail views and paging in tables without conflicts between multiple browser windows sharing the same session?

How do you sell the limitation to one browser window per user to your customers?


Here is what we are thinking in terms of Solution
Solution Proposal:
1)Is it possible to disable File-> New Window in case of IE and File-> New Tab in case of Firefox
2)Is it possible to detect the session already exists when users open another browser instance . And then give Alert message to the user and automatically close the other browser instance
or any other solution ???

I heard RichFaces provide extended contexts . Any pointers/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[madman1]

Sorry for my english.

Yes is a big problem.... try to read the book "Ajax Patterns and Best Practices. Developing next generation of web applications". CHAPTER 9 State Navigation Pattern.

You can find the way to detect windows-tabs of the same browser.

[nbelaevski]

Hello,

JBoss Seam http://www.jboss.org/jbossseam/ provides features that allow to cope with the problem easily:
http://www.jboss.org/jbossseam/faq/index.html#workspace

[mail2bansi]

Thanks for quick responses. Its too late in the project to introduce either Seam or Orchestra. We would like to develop a work-around using Javascript i.e. to prevent user from opening multiple windows from within the same browser using JavaScript onload event
Then Java Script function would look for all opened windows that contains a predefined piece of information such as html body id and If such common marker is found that means we already have window opened in which case we will pop-up Java Script alert notifying user that multiple windows are not supported yet.

Any pointers/suggestions on how to look for all opened windows within javascript function will be greatly appreciated