I'm get confused with this 2 concepts ajax="false" and process="@this". Is the resulting view the same?, is there any order of execution?, will both execute the validation phase? something else should I care about?
ajax="false" means that your UICommand e.g. <p:commandButton> will perform a request/response process without using ajax. This is an attribute for PrimeFaces UICommands.
process="@this" means that only the current component value will be send to the server instead of sending the data from the whole <h:form>. This attribute belongs to PrimeFaces components that have ajax functionality embedded. It is similar to execute attribue in <f:ajax> from JSF.
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