Re: MX4J and AJAX
"Simone Bordet" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.mx4j.user |
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Hi ! > Anyone doing any AJAX programming using MX4J? > > In the web app I'm working on, I've done one little function call - a > unit conversion routine - using the Taconite framework > (http://taconite.sourceforge.net). It seems to work very well. My > technique is to render the page/form, then any button that requires an > MX4J interaction calls a JavaScript routine that builds the object, > method, and arguments required by MX4J. The JMX method is invoked via > the XMLHttpRequest(), the "identity" result is returned to the web app, > and JavaScript handles rendering the results where they go. > > The combination of MX4J and AJAX seems to fit together very well. The > only problem I had is that Taconite expects the Content-Type to be > "text/xml" and MX4J always returns "text/html". I got around this by > making a slight change to Taconite so that it doesn't parse the result > into a DOM. This has the negative side effect that the result can't be > treated as a Document, but it works for me. It'd be nice if MX4J > allowed the Content-Type to be set, or at least returned "text/xml" for > the identity transformation. Great (and glad) you're mixing ajax and mx4j ! The content-type seems to be hardcoded in XSLTProcessor.writeResponse(). Can you please file a RFE for this change, so we keep track of it ? Thanks ! Simon -- http://bordet.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642