2 Replies Latest reply on Jun 23, 2011 4:46 PM by jbalunas

richfaces 4 wish list

tchoesang Jun 14, 2011 6:27 AM

Hi!

I have been using richfaces suite for some time now. We have recently began our migration to richfaces 4.

Things that I miss and wish to have:

1. I would like to be able to load all the styles and scripts as a single file. It makes a huge performance difference.

2. Why isnot the resources (js/css) not being loaded at the end of the page (following the standards of improving performance ) ?

3. Would not it be great, if the users can externally load the resources by themselves, providing more control the developers. In our case, we could get rid of styles and scripts related to components we dont use in our system.

4*. When migrating from richfaces 3.3.3 to richfaces 4, I have a hard time finding the right substitute of event in the new framework.

e.g. <a4j:ajax event="onuploadcomplete"/>, it is nested inside a fileUpload tag.

Can I find somewhere a list of all possible event's? I am using eclipse and the IDE is provides no help and also no help from the richfaces documentation either .

regards,

Choesang

1. Re: richfaces 4 wish list

tchoesang Jun 15, 2011 11:16 AM (in response to tchoesang)
Even though I have not found the list of events possible for the attribute event , I came some steps forward.

Lets take the example of f:ajax

First of all you dont need to know all the events. There is an easier way to it. Simply use the component <f:ajax> without specifying the event on which it should react. This way, it simply takes the default event of the parent component.
For an action source component like Button, you can use event ="action"
An Editable comonent like InputText can use event="valueChange"
The important thing to know for me was that the events depend on the parent component container and the easiest way is simply not to define.

There are 2 great articles to refer to, for more example and better explanation
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/blog/max_katz/2010/04/learning_jsf2_ajax_in_jsf__using_f_ajax_tag
http://java.dzone.com/articles/ajax-jsf-joined
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2. Re: richfaces 4 wish list

jbalunas Jun 23, 2011 4:46 PM (in response to tchoesang)

I believe we already have some of these in place https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-7230 , and hope to review in the 4.1.0 cycle. If you think would like to add to that jira, or create some sub-tasks for specifics please do!!

We can continue the conversation, and dig deeper to see what fits where.
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