最新的A4J可以从http://www.jboss.org/jbossrichfaces/downloads/下载,当然最新的版本是A4J3.3,解压下载richfaces-ui-3.3.0.GA-bin.zip文件包,然后复制lib目录下的richfaces-api-3.3.0.GA.jar、richfaces-impl-3.3.0.GA.jar、richfaces-ui-3.3.0.GA.jar三个文件添加到项目的WEB-INF/lib文件夹下。要运行A4J还需要把commons-beanutils.jar、commons-collections.jar、commons-digester.jar、commons-logging.jar包添加到羡慕的WEB-INF/lib文件夹下,然后把下面的内容添加到Web程序的WEB-INF/web.xml中:
<filter>
<display-name>Ajax4jsf Filter</display-name>
<filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
接着在每个Ajax功能的JSP页面中添加下面的内容:
<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/a4j" prefix="a4j"%>