ICEfaces^® Integration for Eclipse Helios (v3.6)

v2.0.1

July 20th , 2010

Overview

ICEfaces Integration for Eclipse provides ICEfaces and ICEfaces Facelets support for developers who use Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (Helios) v3.6 for ICEfaces 2 application development. This release is built on Eclipse v3.6.0 RC3 with WTP (Web Tools Platform) v3.2.

This integration provides the following features:

Adds ICEfaces 2, ICEfaces compatibility libraries to JSF projects
Configures project web.xml for ICEfaces
Provides ICEfaces 2 Facelets xhtml page templates
Adds ICEfaces components to the Eclipse Visual JSF Page Designer
Visual editing of JSF pages; Drag & drop components onto page, edit properties via properties editor, etc.

This document contains the following sections:

Changes in this release
Support
About ICEfaces

Changes in this release (v2.0.1)

ICEfaces® Integration Plugin for NetBeans v6.9 Release Notes

Fixed the issue "content-assistent doesn't work with ICEfaces components' attributes in xhtml editor"
Included ICEfaces 2.0.0 beta1
Removed icefaces-compat-comps.jar as it has been merged into icefaces-compat.jar
Renamed com.icesoft.faces.webapp.ResourceServlet to com.icesoft.faces.webapp.CompatResourceServlet
Included Mojarra (JSF RI) 2.0.3

Support

Open source community support is available at http://www.icefaces.org.

For information on commercial support, professional services, and training, please visit http://support.icefaces.org.

About ICEfaces

ICEfaces delivers extensions to Java ServerFaces (JSF) that provide an AJAX-enabled rich presentation environment for JSF applications. ICEfaces brings value to any Java EE development project that needs to provide superior presentation capabilities to the web application user. In particular, ICEfaces provides the following features:

Smooth, incremental page updates that do not require a full page refresh to achieve presentation changes in the application.
Server-initiated asynchronous presentation updates for dynamic instantaneous data push.
The ICEfaces Component Suite, a complete rich JSF component suite that fully leverages ICEfaces capabilities.
Intelligent form processing that facilitates fine-grained interactions with the user as they manipulate a form.
API support for rapid development of group-aware and collaborative applications, such as Chat, Webcast, social apps., etc.
JSP or Facelets based development.
Tool integrations for leading Java IDEs.
Support for leading Java EE frameworks, such as Spring and JBoss Seam.
Support for portlet development.

Learn More

This ICEfaces release comes with extensive documentation that will help you understand the product thoroughly. Documentation for ICEfaces is available on-line at http://documentation.icefaces.org/ The following documents are provided in PDF format:

ICEfaces Getting Started Guide: This guide takes you through product installation, environment configuration, demo app installation, and a basic 7-stage tutorial. This guide also contains information related to support for different application server environments and development tools.
ICEfaces Developer's Guide: This guide contains information relevant to developing applications with ICEfaces. It describes the ICEfaces architecture, and explains key concepts that the ICEfaces developer should be aware of. It also provides a complete reference guide that covers APIs, configuration, components (including the ICEfaces Component Suite) and TLDs, and covers advanced topics like server-initiated rendering.