Popup Search Window

Question

I would like to have a search field on my JSF page that can query my database for possible record matches. I would like these matches to possibly be displayed in a pop-up window on top of the page in a selectable-textbox. I would then like the user to be able to select one of the possible matches, click a button, and have that selection populated in my original form.
Can you do this with JSF? If so, how do you branch to a new page and then retrieve the value from the pop-up window back in the main window / backing bean?
Thanks again, everyone.

Answer 1

What you can do is on the first form simply supply a button lets call it Enter Address.
When the user selects this button simply direct them to the Address form in this example.
When the user press the submit button on the adress form you call a method such as populate form1. Within this method you can manipulate any of the backing beans data attirbutes.
public String form1()
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ServletContext servletContext =
ServletContext)facesContext.getExternalContext().getContext();
AddressBean adb = AddressBean)app.createValueBinding("#{AddressBean}").getValue(facesContext);
Form1Bean from1 = From1Bean)app.createValueBinding("#{Form1Bean}").getValue(facesContext);
form1.setState(adb.getState());
return("Form1") // this will cause the app to return to form1.jsp make sure you update
// your faces-config.xml file tree.
from1 state field will be populated with what ever the user selected on the address from
state field.
Hope this helps