Problem of updating component on a page after ajax?s call

[jquery]

Hi,

Let?s say that I have outjected List variable

@Out
List<Person> employees;

Then through remoting I call changeList() method:

public void changeList(){


 employees = new ArrayList<Person>();
 Person person = new Person();
 person.setFirstName(?John?);
 person.setLastName(?Smith?);
 employess.add(person);
 ?.
}

And now I don?t know how to update page that i.e. selectOneMenu shows list of employees with the employee who were added in changeList() method. Because after calling by ajax changeList() method the list (in selectOneMenu) on the page stays unchanged.

Thanks for help in advance,
jquery

[pmuir]

You'll need to do a partial page refresh on that bit of the page e.g. using RichFaces. Or do it manually using Remoting.

[jquery]

Thanks for the answer. As I understood one way to achieve what I expect is to return from changeList() method a long string (i.e comma separated values) then in JavaScript reparse it to appropriate values and eventually load selectOneMenu with those values. This is of course not very convenient way! But how to do a partial refresh using rich faces (what components should I use?) assuming the following part of jsf page:

...

<h:selectOneMenu value="#{employeeHome.instance.person}" >
 <s:selectItems value="#{personList.resultList}" var="person"
 label="#{person.lastName}" />
 <s:convertEntity/>
</h:selectOneMenu>

...

[pmuir]

a:support and reRender I think (actually you'll probably find it easier to do all of this using RichFaces.