Problem is that in JavaServer Faces application ajax request are just not working. o:ajax in openfaces nor f:ajax in plain JSF 2.0 is not sending any requests to server. For testing can be used simple echo application.
<h:form>
<h:inputText value="#{ajaxTestBean.testValue}" >
<f:ajax event="keyup" render="text"/>
</h:inputText>
<h:outputText id="text" value="#{ajaxTestBean.testValue}" />
</h:form>
Normally this should work without problems but there is little catch. <h:head></h:head> tag must be included in order for ajax to work properly. Definind h:head includes some more needed javascripts to complete everything. Try this code below to get it working:
index.xhtml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
<f:view>
<h:head>
<title>AjaxTest</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form>
<h:inputText value="#{ajaxTestBean.testValue}" >
<f:ajax event="keyup" render="text"/>
</h:inputText>
<h:outputText id="text" value="#{ajaxTestBean.testValue}" />
</h:form>
</h:body>
</f:view>
</html>
AjaxTestBean.java
package com.ajaxtest;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
@ManagedBean(name = "ajaxTestBean")
@SessionScoped
public class AjaxTestBean {
private String testValue = "default";
public String getTestValue() {
return testValue;
}
public void setTestValue(String testValue) {
this.testValue = testValue;
}
}
