Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Victor,

I find Tor's and Greg M's bpcatalog documents describing AJAX and JSF useful. However they do not address 'updates'.

Updating the model via an AJAX request that is handled by the JSF framework as suggested by bccatalog examples is a challenge.

I am not sure if it is best to use the "Update Model" phase of the life cycle or just cheat and put he update code in the tags render response phase. Also, it appears that the "update model Phase" may not be included in the lifecycle as the ajax request is not really a JSF "postback".

Does anyone know what tradeoff result in doing an update in the Render Response Phase?

Cheers,
Godfrey