Here I have an example, almost the same that richfaces reference show

<h:form>
<h:inputText value="#{bean.text}">
<a4j:support event="onkeyup" reRender="repeater" />
</h:inputText>

<h:inputText id="repeater" value="#{bean.text}" />

</h:form>

I change h:outputText for h:inputText and doesn´t work.

I would like to know why thats happen, because apparently the same problem appear whit this code:

<h:form>
<h:inputText value="#{bean.text}">
<a4j:support event="onkeyup" reRender="repeater" />
</h:inputText>

<h:outputText id="repeater" binding="#{bean.outputText}" />

</h:form>

Here it is the bean, just in case:

package bean;

import javax.faces.component.html.HtmlOutputText;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

public class Bean {

private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Bean.class);

protected String text;

public String getText() {
return text;
}

public void setText(String text) {
this.text = text;
}

protected HtmlOutputText outputText;

public HtmlOutputText getOutputText() {
if (log.isDebugEnabled())
log.debug(">>> se pidio el outputtext");
if (outputText == null) outputText = new HtmlOutputText();
outputText.setValue(getText());
return outputText;
}

public void setOutputText(HtmlOutputText outputText) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled())
log.debug(">>> Se seteo el outputext");
this.outputText = outputText;
}


}

If you test this, you can see that every time the event keyup is fire, only the method setOutputText is invoke.

Best regards, I hope you can tell me something.