Introducing Ajax support in a MyFaces (JSF) + Tomahawk application

Question

Hi,

we have a project where we are using MyFaces + Tomahawk, recently I have been requested to provide enhancements to many of the existing screens by using AJAX and provide functionality such as partial refresh. As I see, Tomahawk's components don't have special support for Ajax, so it may be a lot of work to hack Tomahawk in order to use Ajax.

Now, I have seen that there are other frameworks such as Trinidad, ajax4jsf, RichFaces, etc. I'm specially interested in Trinidad since it is also a MyFaces project and it has built-in Ajax support, but I'm not still convinced about Trinidad since the other frameworks also have very promising features.

Considering that I have a MyFaces+Tomahawk application, what move would you suggest to take in order to introduce Ajax support? Hack with Tomahawk or directly with JSF/MyFaces? Use Trinidad? Use/Add a different framework?

EDIT: I just read about Tobago which is also part of Apache MyFaces, and I would like to add the following question: How does Tobago compare to Trinidad? To the other frameworks?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I'd go for richfaces. It is a de-facto standard for jsf ajax handling. The principles of richfaces influenced JSF 2.0 ajax support.