Load Page sections

[jgreiner]

So I have 2 sections of a page.    1 section loads really slow.   There is not much I can do about it except let it run.    What I would like to do is load the 2 sections separtely so the 1 section the user can use and fill in some information, the other section would show a processing icon.    When the second section completes I would display some information in that area, and enable a button on section 1 so the user can continue.

Is this possiable in a4j, and jsf 1.2?   I would also be keen to render the page and then do a partial page post to start section 2 processing. 

Any ideas or direction would be helpful.

Thanks

Jason

[nbelaevski]

Hi Jason,

Yes, this is possible. Use a4j:jsFunction to initiate load of the second page part using JavaScript.

[jgreiner]

Thanks for the input Nick...

I was heading down that path, but I was not sure how or what event would initiate the jsFunction?   I was playing around with f:view and the f:event but those did not seem to work (I was thinking they may be jsf 2.0 functions).

Thanks again.

[nbelaevski]

Call it from 'onload' attribute of body.

[jgreiner]

Ok I have not tried that because I am using facelet templates so was not 100% sure how...but I will attempt to do that.   I think I should be able to use jquery to add the code to the body onload.   But I am definatly a jquery rookie.

Thanks