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Creating an Ajax Autocompletion Text Field with Dynamic Faces

Hi all,

Today I'd like to start a blog series in which I highlight Web application tutorials for NetBeans 6.5. A few changes have been made to tutorials, among which is the featuring of MySQL as the database of choice.

This first entry in the series will cover the tutorial, "Creating an Ajax Autocompletion Text Field with Dynamic Faces", which is based on a NetBeans Community Docs tutorial by Bilal Ahamed.

This tutorial demonstrates the usage of the Woodstock JSF 1.2 Text Field component with Ajax functionality provided by the Project Dynamic Faces component library. Dynamic Faces, also known as POJC (Plain Old JavaServer Faces Components), are an extension to JavaServer Faces technology that lets you easily implement Ajax functionality. In particular, you use the Ajax Transaction component included with the Dynamic Faces component library (0.2), which lets you visually configure Ajax functionality at design time. No conventional page submissions occur. Specifically, an Ajax request is sent when the user sends a comment by typing text in the text field. The page also uses Ajax requests to poll the server continually in order to update the transcript of comments.

In this version of the tutorial, MySQL is the database used.

Have a good time with this.

Cheers!

--James

Posted at 07:45PM Nov 25, 2008 by branajam in NetBeans  |