Is it possible to reload only body in the tiles

[karthik chandra]

I've used a tiles to hava a structure for my web application like the sample below. Am using JSF 1.1.

<tiles:insert definition="page.applicationLayoutNewDesign">
<tiles:put name="body" valueabcd.jsp" type="page"/>
</tiles:insert>

My header, menu structure is in tha applicationLayoutNewDesign, IS it possible if I click on the menu, only the body get reloaded and the header remain static(means doesn't load again).

[Tim Holloway]

Welcome to the JavaRanch, Karthik!

Tiles are (in my opinion) an abomination. I never learned to love them. In JSF, tiling can be done using the Facelets subsystem, which is available as an add-on for JSF1 and is an integral part of JSF2. So one reason to consider facelets is that unlike tiles, it's a part of the current JEE standard.

Regardless of what tiling system you use, however, you cannot update just part of a page (technical term: "partial page update") using straight HTTP. You need AJAX to do that. That is, in fact, exactly what AJAX was designed to do.

In JSF1, there is no built-in support for AJAX, although some of the third-party extension tagsets provide AJAX support that make it very easy to do partial page updates. In JSF2, ajax is additionally available as part of the core JSF JEE standard.