Hi,

obviously there's something I'm missing with richfaces a4j... This is the simple example I have made.

Here the xhtml

<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
    xmlns:a="http://richfaces.org/a4j" 
    template="layout/template.xhtml">

<ui:define name="body">
     <ul>
          <ui:repeat var="_i" value="#{test.strings}">
               <li>#{_i}</li>
          </ui:repeat>
        </ul>
        <s:div id="date">
             #{test.date}
        </s:div>
        <h:form>
             <a:commandLink value="Go" action="#{test.nothing}" reRender="date"/>
        </h:form>
 </ui:define>
</ui:composition>

Here the Test Component

package es.cohnen.pistayhora.session;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;

@Name("test")
public class Test {
     private Date date = new Date();

     public void nothing(){
          System.out.println("Doing nothing...");
          date = new Date();
     }
     
     public List<String> getStrings(){
          System.out.println("Loading strings...");
          List<String> res = new ArrayList<String>();
          for (int i=0; i<20; i++){
               res.add(""+i);
          }
          return res;
     }
     
     public Date getDate() {
          return date;
     }

     public void setDate(Date date) {
          this.date = date;
     }
}

What I want: I want to print the ul in the site, and then, when I click the a4j link, I want the 'nothing' method to be called, but without calling the 'getStrings' method (Or whatever another method was called in the xhtml file.

The traces I get are:

19:28:31,379 INFO  [STDOUT] Loading strings... (First call, loading page)
19:28:36,145 INFO  [STDOUT] Loading strings... (ajax call)
19:28:36,161 INFO  [STDOUT] Doing nothing... (ajax call)

Why is the 'getStrings' method called when I click my a4j link? I have tried using bypassupdates, singleAjax, immediate... none of them did the job...

Thank you in advance! I hope it is clear enough!