How to refresh part of a page

I have a RichFaces dataTable that I want to refresh independantly from the rest of the page. I would prefer to avoid using something like iFrame. I have searched the forums, but I haven't been able to find anything on refreshing part of page.
[257 byte] By [r-squareda] at [2007-11-27 9:32:21]
# 1
So you want to asynchronously refresh a part of the page. There is one general solution to accomplish this: implement AJAX.
BalusCa at 2007-7-12 22:49:37 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Web Tier APIs...
# 2
So do I just wrap the dataTable with the a4j:Poll?
r-squareda at 2007-7-12 22:49:37 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Web Tier APIs...