You could use an in page dialog (like a4j's or tomahawk's modal dialog). Using AJAX would make it easy to update just portions of the page
On 8/2/07, Jerome Iffrig (Europe) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > If any of you use eBay, you would have noticed the way it handles the update > of some fields. > > To put it short, you have your user information displayed on the screen. > > To modify your profile (e.g. your e-mail address) eBay does not display a > big form with all your information editable, it rather displays a tiny form > with the single editable field, the one to modiy. > > > > Do you have any idea on how this can be implemented with JSF (for info I use > Spring to wrap my services and Hibernate for saving my data in the DB). I > was imagining some dynamic way in which I could reuse only a handful of > JSPs/actions (one for text field, one for drop-downs) with dynamic > recognition of the object type and some way to glue a validator in. > > > > Thanks for your ideas. > > > > > >

