Hello,

after spending 3 days with trying to integrate ajax framworks with jboss seam i finally get a integration with ajax4jsf working

1) first download ajax4js https://ajax4jsf.dev.java.net/nonav/ajax/ajax-jsf/

2) copy the following jars to $JBOSSSERVERHOME/default/lib

el-api.jar
el-ri.jar
jsf-facelets.jar
ajax4jsf.jar
oscache-2.2.jar

this has to be done becourse of a global JBoss Classloader Issue (cant find the the posting i found for that, i am sorry) , when i deployed these jars with my application i got a lot of problems, well u can try out maybe u get it working.

Also make sure sure the jars mentionend above are not deployed with your application!

3)

change web.xml to and make sure no application view handler is defined.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE faces-config
 PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces Config 1.0//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd">

<faces-config>
 <lifecycle>
 <phase-listener>
 org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamExtendedManagedPersistencePhaseListener
 </phase-listener>
 </lifecycle>

</faces-config>

change faces-config.xml to

web-app version="2.4"
 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

 <!-- Seam -->
 <listener>
 <listener-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener</listener-class>
 </listener>

 <!-- Propagate conversations across redirects -->
 <filter>
 <filter-name>Seam Redirect Filter</filter-name>
 <filter-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamRedirectFilter</filter-class>
 </filter>

 <!-- ajax4jsf -->
 <filter>
 <display-name>Ajax4jsf Filter</display-name>
 <filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
 <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
 </filter>
 <filter-mapping>
 <filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
 <url-pattern>*.seam</url-pattern>
 </filter-mapping>



 <filter-mapping>
 <filter-name>Seam Redirect Filter</filter-name>
 <url-pattern>*.seam</url-pattern>
 </filter-mapping>

 <filter>
 <filter-name>Seam Exception Filter</filter-name>
 <filter-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamExceptionFilter</filter-class>
 </filter>

 <filter-mapping>
 <filter-name>Seam Exception Filter</filter-name>
 <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
 </filter-mapping>


 <!-- JSF -->
 <context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
 <param-value>client</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.VIEW_HANDLERS</param-name>
 <param-value>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
 <param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.REFRESH_PERIOD</param-name>
 <param-value>2</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>com.sun.faces.validateXml</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>com.sun.faces.verifyObjects</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.SKIN</param-name>
 <param-value>DEFAULT</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <servlet>
 <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
 <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

 <!-- Faces Servlet Mapping -->
 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>*.seam</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

 <!-- MyFaces -->
 <listener>
 <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class>
 </listener>
</web-app>

4) if u have a have any h:commandLink with parameters (f:param)
replace them with a4j:commandLink or the parameter will get lost

It works good for me even conversations seems (what a wordplay) to work.

Thats it, well its only a temporary guide until maybe some of the jboss crew can give a more detailed and better solution, hopefully its integrated in the next release :-) (copying the jars in the servers /default/lib directory really gives me a bad taste)

Hope i could help someone,

Bye,

Holger