jsf 1.2 Facelets - Double clicks on a selectManyListbox

[Solomon Gnanadurai]

JSF 1.2 & Facelets -

I have two similar questions listed below.

1. How can I execute a backing bean method when a user double clicks on a selectManyListbox?

I know we can code like ondblclick="document.getElementById('formid').submit()" but I dont have a submit button in my page. And I am not using AJAX.

2. How can I execute a backing bean method when value changes in h:selectBooleanCheckbox without submitting the form?

Thanks.

[Tim Holloway]

You cannot access a backing bean without doing some form of submit, because submitting is the way that the client talks to the server in HTTP, and HTTP is the underpinning of JSF.

AJAX makes it possible to do a partial page submit/render, but it's still an HTTP submit at heart.

Since you're using JSF 1.2, you are either going to have to pull in a suitable AJAX-friendly extension tagset such as RichFaces or IceFaces. OR you're going to have to employ an AJAX support library like jQuery or Dojo. OR you're going to have to do it the hard way, using raw JavaScript AJAX.

[Solomon Gnanadurai]

Tim, thanks for your reply. As you suggested I am going to use RichFaces but I had few issues when deploying in weblogic 10.3.1 and I was able to resolve most of the issues but I am stuck with the below exception when deploying in weblogic. Any help is appreciated.
I am using the below jar files to use RichFaces.
commons-collections-3.2.1
jhighlight-1.0
guava-r09-gwt
guava-r09
richfaces-api-3.3.3.Final
richfaces-impl-3.3.3.Final
richfaces-impl-jsf2-3.3.3.Final
richfaces-ui-3.3.3.Final
commons-digester-2.0
commons-logging-1.1.1

Exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.getXMLReader(Digester.java:1058)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1887)
at org.ajax4jsf.resource.ResourceBuilderImpl.registerConfig(ResourceBuilderImpl.java:211)
at org.ajax4jsf.resource.ResourceBuilderImpl.registerResources(ResourceBuilderImpl.java:155)
at org.ajax4jsf.resource.ResourceBuilderImpl.init(ResourceBuilderImpl.java:226)

[Tim Holloway]

Check the RichFaces manual (PDF). In the front of it you should find a listing of the particular needs that different webapp servers have in order to run RichFaces, and that includes WebLogic.

[Solomon Gnanadurai]

Yes after checking their manual I found that I am not using commons-digester-1.8.jar. So using the right version solved the weblogic deployment problem.

Also I am able to execute backing bean method using RichFaces like this
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox immediate="true" value="#{bean.selectAll}" id="selectAll" > <a4j:support event="onclick" action="#{bean.action}" reRender="dataTable,selectAll" /> </h:selectBooleanCheckbox>

Thanks Tim for all the inputs that you have been giving so far.

[Solomon Gnanadurai]

I am able to use RichFaces Ajax and rerender partial page when the user clicks selectBooleanCheckbox.

But I have one more scenario where I have selectManyListbox and on double clicking should call the bean method and return to the next page based on the <from-outcome> value from that method. FYI, there is no submit button in the page.

[Solomon Gnanadurai]

Opening a new thread as this post seems to be closed

[sibeswar bhaumik]

I have a selectManyListbox like this-
<h:selectManyListbox id="AssociatedServiceCode" style="width: 160px" size="6"
value="#{ChannelSpeedBean.selectedAssociatedServiceCode}" label="error">
<f:selectItem id="all" itemLabel="Select All" itemValue="#{ChannelSpeedBean.associatedServiceCode}" />
<f:selectItems value="#{ChannelSpeedBean.associatedServiceCode}"/>
</h:selectManyListbox>
I want if someone double click on this selectManyListbox then all items will be selected.
can anyone help me?

[Tim Holloway]

Please do not post the same question more than once. Besides, when you wake up an old dead thread, we call it a "zombie". We would prefer that instead of zombies that people just start their own threads. It keeps things easier to track.