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    copied!<p>How to pass results from RESTful service to JSF components? I read many postings, but couldn't find a straightforward method. Using RESTful APIs wherever possible is the main requirement for my application. Performance is also a key as thousands of data elements will be processed in a day. If I can't find a solution in JSF, I might have to switch to another technology..</p> <p>Therefore, I'm asking in case I'm missing something completely from other postings since I'm new. Here are a couple of simple scenarios. </p> <p>On a JSF page, there is a datatable (Primefaces Checkbox based selection). The datatable displays records available (up to thousands). The datatable needs to be loaded through a RESTful api on the fly. Below is the code for my datatable. </p> <pre><code> &lt;p:dataTable id="addSampleTable" var="sample" value="#{testBean.sampleDataModel}" selection="#{testBean.selectedSamples}" &gt; &lt;p:column selectionMode="multiple" style="width:2%" /&gt; &lt;p:column headerText="Sample"&gt; &lt;h:outputText value="#{sample.name}" /&gt; &lt;/p:column&gt; &lt;/p:dataTable&gt; </code></pre> <p>What's the best way to load the data? Is there a performance concern if every time I have to call the API from the server side (as opposed to client side using jquery and plain html)? </p> <p>Second scenario, on the same page, there is also a button that allows user to add new record through another RESTful api. In turn, the newly added record should be displayed in the datatable. </p> <p>After I call the RESTful API to insert a record, the api also returns the record that was created. How can I insert this new record into my datamodel #{testBean.sampleDataModel} so that I don't have to load the entire table again? I suppose I can replace this datatable with plain html and append the new record to the table using jQuery, but then I can't leverage the selection table from JSF. </p> <p>What are my options? </p>
 

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