Continuous polling JSF component to refresh its state

Hi!

I am using some standard JSF (MyFaces) components in an application. I want the dataTable to keep polling the server and refresh its state every, say n seconds. How should i go about it? The component itself is not Ajax-aware. Can it be done using some third-party libraries like DWR etc?

Thanks.

Hi Robin,

I don't remember any AJAX solution for your problem.

There is a simple trick in HTML

put this in head section of your JSP containing your JSF datatable
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">
</head>

where 600 is the number of seconds the browser waits to refresh the page.

In your backing bean do a databind at every refresh.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
Ravi

Originally posted by Ravisekhar Kopparthi:
Hi Robin,

I don't remember any AJAX solution for your problem.

There is a simple trick in HTML

put this in head section of your JSP containing your JSF datatable
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">
</head>

where 600 is the number of seconds the browser waits to refresh the page.

In your backing bean do a databind at every refresh.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
Ravi

Hi Ravi!

This solution would be like a last resort as i have a lot of other data on the screen which will unnecessarily get submitted. What i want is a partial refresh for the dataTable component with polling capability.

Thanks anyways.