[jsr-314-open] Ajax rendering of components among compositions?

[Dan Allen]

> All I've done is cut the zoom prompt and menu from the original file, and
> pasted it into zoomLevelControl.xhtml.
>
> However, now when I change the zoom level menu, I get an error:
>
>     <f:ajax> contains an unknown id 'image'


According to the AjaxBehaviorRenderer:

/**
  * Attempt to find the component assuming the ID is relative to the
  * nearest naming container.  If not found, then search for the component
  * using an absolute component expression.
  */

My guess is that the components within the composite component are
considered to be within a naming container, isolating them from your image
component. The strange part, though, is that the composite component is not
acting like a naming container as I observed. To fix your problem w/ the
current implementation, you have to use an absolute id to the image
component (I would guess). But yeah, this is a very confusing situation for
developers.

Frankly, for JSF 2.1, I would like to see us go to an XPath-like syntax (or
jQuery) to find components because component IDs in JSF just plain suck.

-Dan

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