Most ADF Faces components can also work with client-side events. Handling events on the client side saves a round trip to the server. JavaScript replaces managed beans to handle client-side events. This JavaScript can be inline on the page or in a separate JavaScript file.
In this recipe, we will create a client listener to capture the change in the value of the LastName
attribute and alert the end user about the change. You can refer to the last recipe to do this, or you can grab this project's recipe by cloning the ADFFacesClientEvents
application from the Git repository.
To learn how to use ADF Faces's client events, follow the ensuing steps: