a4j is undefined in JSF Portlet(a4j:support tag)

[kasyaparushi kiran]

Hi,

I am using richfaces to get ajax support in JSF Portlet.
I am getting javascript error a4j is undefined when I use a4j:support tag In JSF.


I am using websphere portal 6.1,WAS 6.1 and JSF 1.2,Rad 8.0.

Below Jar files I kept in webinf/lib:-
commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-collections-3.2.jar
commons-digester-1.8.jar
icu4j_3_4_1.jar
jsf-ibm.jar
jsf-portletbridge.jar
richfaces-api-3.1.4.GA.jar
richfaces-impl-3.1.4.GA.jar
richfaces-ui-3.1.4.GA.jar

Please help me if anybody has done this earlier.

Thanks & Regards,
K.Kiran Kumar

[Tim Holloway]

I don't think that's a JavaScript error, but JSF View Definition Language is XML, and "a4j" is an XML namespace alias, which needs to be defined as part of the view schema mappings. For example:

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
        xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
        xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
        xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
        xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
        xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
        template="/WEB-INF/layout/layout.xhtml">

Note the "a4j" mapping in the above.