Real-Time Validation
As we saw in the section “Form Completion,” on page 9, you can implement basic Ajax in a JSF application with little more than a servlet and a few lines of JavaScript. In this example, we’ll implement real-time validation, which will give us the opportunity to explore some of the more complex interactions between Ajax and JSF.
The application shown in Figure 3 performs real-time validation. When the user enters the fifth character of the Zip Code, we execute an Ajax request to validate those five digits.
Figure 3. Real-time validation
On the server, we obtain a reference to the component that represents the Zip Code field ...
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