It's possible that there is a specific interaction with the MyFaces event queue that would make the fix for this simpler than it might appear.

Assigning to Ken to dispatch the fix within the EE schedule.

Missed clicks on MyFaces are observed to have essentially empty responses:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><partial-response><changes><update id="javax.faces.ViewState"><![CDATA[pJ/Nu6dY9UwYree3MxFKZ7p9ouW5ZCj2Pw21wgkP0baQdNsgYHK7WOocfJ+rkyYMPHrkHqFKx0co
750+7IiR1EIvTY+Rhrm9BeBDwREn/XRxOgFhcaFqT9bKNi81Il3rYAlyQAF6/Q1xTrw3
]]></update></changes></partial-response>

This issue seems readily reproducible with auctionMonitor, but not with auction. Do your tests confirm this as well?

For compat auctionMonitor, the header implementation is as follows:

var form=formOf(this);form['iceForm:j_idcl'].value='iceForm:iceTable:sortByTitle_click';iceSubmit(form,this,event);ice.onAfterUpdate(function()

);return false;

For auction it is:

jsf.util.chain(document.getElementById('nameHdr:sortColumnEvent'), event,'jsf.ajax.request(\'nameHdr:sortColumnEvent\',event,

)'); return false;

This issue cannot be reproduced manually with auction application.

Re-tested manually the sorting behaviour within both auction & auctionMonitor, using 3.0.x-maintenance rev. 28227:

• issue is still persistent in auctionMonitor (about 2-3 sorting clicks out of 10 fail, depending on the browser).
• sorting always works in auction application.

Re-tested sorting in auctionMonitor and auction apps using ICEfaces3 trunk rev. 28979, in IE8, Firefox12, Chrome18:

• no issues related to sorting in auction.
• sorting works in auctionMonitor most of the time (about 2-3 sorting clicks out of 10 fail, depending on the browser).

Marking as Won't Fix. While improvements have been made, the behaviour is a relatively rare edge case requiring the use of both MyFaces and a very tight Ajax Push cycle. The Auction Monitor provides this combination through the use of a Clock renderer that is set do an Ajax Push at 1-second intervals - something we typically wouldn't recommend implementing other than in a demonstration of this type.