Question

I’m developing a web application with Tomcat 7 and JSF with Primefaces components. I have some troubles because the local server doesn’t execute any ajax event, neither the simplest one.

I want to know if there is some configuration to be done to use JQuery, that is needed by Primefaces, on Tomcat. Do I have also to include JQuery libraries on my Eclipse project?

Answer 1

Tomcat has nothing to do with the JQuery. If you are already using PrimeFaces it has JQuery by it self, you just need to import it properly into your head section of XHTML page. For e.g. I am using JQuery from PrimeFaces and I have constructed the following XHTML head:

<h:head xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
        xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
        xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="EmulateIE8"/>
    <meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
    <title>
        <h:outputText value="#{msg['application.name']}"/>
    </title>
    <f:view locale="en"/>
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/css/style.css"/>
    <h:outputScript library="primefaces" name="jquery/jquery.js"/>
</h:head>

This:

<h:outputScript library="primefaces" name="jquery/jquery.js"/>

line will import the JQuery from PrimeFaces and you will be able to use it in your project. Don’t forget to remove all other JQuery libraries from you project and use only one which comes from PrimeFaces.