Practical RichFaces, Second Edition

C H A P T E R  10

Rich Drag-and-Drop Components

Being able to drag and drop items inside a browser is cool and becoming an important feature. RichFaces provides a set of features that enable you to drag and drop almost any JSF component. The available drag-and-drop components provide everything you need, so you won't have to deal with any JavaScript. Although drag-and-drop is happening on the client side, RichFaces allows binding drag-and-drop events to server-side listeners. Another thing to keep in mind is that drag-and-drop components are actually just functional components (similar to the Core tag library in JSF), so they don't provide a lot in terms of UI, only the functionality to drag-and-drop other components.

Using <rich:dragSource> ...