June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
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The AJAX mechanism used by JSF is encapsulated in a JavaScript file, named jsf.js. This file is available in the javax.faces library. When we are using <f:ajax>, this file is loaded behind the scene without any explicit requirements.
However, jsf.js can be loaded explicitly with any of the following methods:
<h:outputScript> component as follows:<h:outputScript name="jsf.js" library="javax.faces" target="head"/>
@ResourceDependency keyword as follows:@ResourceDependency(name="jsf.js" library="javax.faces" target="head")
Focusing on <h:outputScript>, you can attach AJAX to a component as shown in the following example code:
<h:form prependId="false"> <h:outputScript name="jsf.js" library ="javax.faces" ...