In this chapter, you tasted the power of RichFaces components to build Ajax applications by developing a simple example.

You learned the basics of RichFaces step by step, from creating the project to editing the code, using very important components (such as a4j:commandButton, a4j:commandLink, rich:dataTable, and rich:messages) and their Ajax properties (for example, reRender).

In the next chapter, we will start building a real application (an Advanced Contact Manager) using the framework in depth.