Ajax causes full cycle on every event

Question

I'm using the MyFaces JSF 2 implementation with ajax support.
Essentially I have a large table. When I select one of the rows I want to render it on the page using ajax. I don't want to retrieve the entire
page and render it. The rendering part is fine because the entire page is not being re-rendered. However, the method that
retrieves the data from the database always gets called by the server. It seems that JSF is still generating the entire page in the backend but only returning the related components.
The method getStorse() is always invoked when ajax is doing it's thing. However, the page is not re-rendered. I know because I've changed it to return a different size on each invocation for testing.
<h:form>
<h:dataTable id="data" border="1" var="store"
                              value="#{storeController.stores}"
     <f:facet name="header">
          <h:outputText value="Id"></h:outputText>
     </f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{storeController.id}"/>
</h:dataTable>
</h:form>
<!-- Simple ajax test -->
<h:form>
     <h:inputText value="#{storeController.text}">
          <f:ajax event="keyup" execute="@this" render="time"></f:ajax>
     </h:inputText>                     
</h:form>
<h:outputText id="time" value="#{storeController.text}"></h:outputText>
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Edited by: user8660767 on Apr 1, 2011 8:36 AM

Answer 1

Just to clarify - I mean in ical.  thanks