Last week someone asked me if it was possible to inform the users of his application about the fact that data has been changed. No problem I told him. Whenever you use an actionListener or action that is implemented by a method in a bean, you can use showPopup() to show a popup from a backing bean. This was however not what he wanted. The usecase is a little more sophisticated: Save data, and inform the user without showing a popup that has to be ‘clicked’ away. In this post I describe how to achieve this with jQuery (more…)