RichFaces' Ajax4JSF in NetBeans 6 not Rendering components

Question

Hi,
My environment is Netbeans 6 visual web JSF app with RichFaces 3.1.3. I am unable to get any component to rerender upon completion of an ajax request. Is there something wrong in the logic i am following or is it a configuration issue or is it a bug?
The event gets detected correctly and the backing bean function gets called and executes successfully. However, the components are not reRendered. Also, when i refresh, the textField1 displays its original data and not the data i set it to in the backing bean function.
Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
The JSP code:
<jsp:root version="2.1" xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
          xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich" xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
    <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
    <f:view>
        <webuijsf:page binding="#{AboutUs.page1}" id="page1">
            <webuijsf:html binding="#{AboutUs.html1}" id="html1">
                <webuijsf:head binding="#{AboutUs.head1}" id="head1">
                    <webuijsf:link binding="#{AboutUs.link1}" id="link1" url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
                </webuijsf:head>
                <webuijsf:body binding="#{AboutUs.body1}" id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
                    <webuijsf:form binding="#{AboutUs.form1}" id="form1">
                        <webuijsf:image binding="#{AboutUs.image1}" height="2" id="image1"
                                        style="background-repeat: repeat-x; left: 6px; top: 493px; position: absolute" url="/resources/pic/blue_lt_gradient.gif" width="948"/>
                        <webuijsf:textField binding="#{AboutUs.textField1}" id="textField1"
                                            style="position: absolute; left: 174px; top: 72px; width: 228px; height: 18px" >
                            </webuijsf:textField>
                        <webuijsf:textField binding="#{AboutUs.textField2}" id="textField2" style="position: absolute;left: 174px; top: 132px; width: 132px; height: 24px">
                            <a4j:support action="#{AboutUs.textField1_action}" event="onChange" reRender="textField1"/>
                        </webuijsf:textField>
                    </webuijsf:form>
                </webuijsf:body>
            </webuijsf:html>
        </webuijsf:page>
    </f:view>
    </jsp:root>
The backing bean function that i am using:
public String textField1_action() {
        this.getTextField1().setText("Hello World!");
        return null;
}

Answer 1

Webuijsf code is being transformed into javascript on client side. The problem is that standard ajax call DOES NOT execute javascript.
Try using prototype.js instead. It has Ajax.Update function with parameter evalScripts:true, which you can use to execute javascript on
client side