On cell click in a ADF table

HI
I need to select a cell in a table and display the description of that cell in a separate text field .
Table has the following columns A , A1, B , B1, C ,C1 , D , E ,F .
A1, B1 and C1 are the descriptions for A, B , C fields respectively.
so I will display the table with A,B,C,D,E,F columns and if the user selects a cell under column A then i should be able to display A1 in separate text filed and corresponding description when user selects B or C .
so basically i would like to know if there is a way that i can call a bean method when a cell is selected .
Is there a way to do this ?
Thanks in advance

so basically i would like to know if there is a way that i can call a bean method when a cell is selected .
The sample application includes a call to a bean method from a JavaScript function.
"The server listener component allows developers to call server side Java from JavaScript on the client. In
this example, the server listener calls the copyValueToSelectedRows method"
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/learnmore/012-copy-table-cell-values-169137.pdf
Edited by: dvohra16 on Feb 26, 2013 9:41 AM

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