AJAX basics with process and update

PrimeFaces provides Partial Page Rendering (PPR) and the view-processing feature based on standard JSF 2 APIs to enable choosing what to process in the JSF life cycle and what to render in the end with AJAX. PrimeFaces AJAX Framework is based on standard server-side APIs of JSF 2. On the client side, rather than using the client-side API implementations of JSF, such as Mojarra or MyFaces, PrimeFaces scripts are based on the jQuery JavaScript library, which is well tested and widely adopted.

How to do it...

We can create a simple page with a command button to update a string property with the current time in milliseconds that is created on the server side and output text to show the value of that string property, ...

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