JBoss 7.1.1 (Brontes)

RichFaces 4.2.3

I have a method in the backing bean that is adding a FacesMessage to the FacesContext as follows:

{code}
FacesMessage message = new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, 
  builder.toString(), null);
facesContext.addMessage(null, message);
{code}

I am using both rich:messages and rich:notifyMessages as follows:

{code}
                                           <a4j:outputPanel id="outputMessages">
                                               <rich:messages/>
                                               <rich:notifyMessages stayTime="5000" showCloseButton="true" showShadow="true" nonblocking="true" />
                                          </a4j:outputPanel>
{code}
 

The code that is adding the FacesMessage into the FacesContext is called via Ajax:

{code}

                    <h:commandButton id="search" value="Search" action="#{memberDTO.retrieveMemberDetails()}">
                           <f:ajax execute="f_planCode f_mbrId" 
                            render="outputMessages" />
                    </h:commandButton>
 
{code}

When I click on the button triggering the error condition that I am testing, the output from rich:messages is displayed as expected.

But I do not get any rich:notifyMessages

The only way so far I could get rich:notifyMessages working is when:

Adding an onevent attribute to the f:ajax tag, specifying either a javascript function that does nothing, or even specifying a non-existing javascript function.

But that seems to force a refresh of the entire page.