[MYFACES-2876] Ajax Support in Mobile Browsers

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-beta
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.2
• Component/s: General, JSR-314
• Environment: Windows Mobile 6.1, Blackberry 4.7
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mamallan Uthaman
• Created: 13/Aug/10 00:38
• Updated: 16/Sep/10 04:11
• Resolved: 09/Sep/10 14:22

Description

In Windows Mobile (WM) 6.1 platform, <f:ajax> is converted into a full-page submit instead of a PPR. The reason is unlike Webkit based mobile-browsers, WM 6.1 or Blackberry (BB) 4.7 offers only a limited JavaScript-DOM support, so we need to optimize MyFaces's Ajax mechanism to work around the limitations of mobile browsers. I used the sample code below for testing.

Facelets code:
<h:commandButton value="PPR">
<f:ajax event="action" render="second"/>
</h:commandButton>
<h:outputText value="#

{item.date.seconds}

" id="second"/>

Item.Java:
import java.util.Date;

public class Item {
Date date;

public void setDate(Date date)

{ this.date = date; }

public Date getDate()

{ return new Date(); }

}

faces-config:
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>item</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>Item</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>

Also, in the case of BB 4.7 , <f:ajax> can successfully send a PPR, but PPR response is ignored.