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Creating an Ajax Autocompletion Textfield with Dynamic Faces

Hi all,

There's a brand new tutorial on the Web Learning Trail for you to try. The tutorial, Creating an Ajax Autocompletion Textfield with Dynamic Faces, was added for NetBeans 6.5 Beta, but there is also a NetBeans 6.1 version as well.

The tutorial was based on a community docs contribution by Bilal Ahamed. Here is some information about the tutorial:

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.

Make sure you try this one out!

--James

Posted at 09:00AM Aug 29, 2008 by branajam in NetBeans  |  Comments[1]