Overview

ICEfaces v3.0.0 RC2 Integration for Netbeans v7 provides ICEfaces 3.0.0 RC2 support for developers who use Netbeans v7.0.x for ICEfaces application development. This integration extends Netbeans' web framework and provides following extra features for ICEfaces  support.  

Following features are offered in this integration for ICEfaces  support.

• Creates web project with ICEfaces  capability.
• Configures required libraries and configuration file.
• Changes deployment descriptor and configures the IDE for ICEfaces  support.
• Provides ICEfaces components, Advanced components palettes and drag&drop capabilities
  
• Provides usable component snippets by drag & drop ICEfaces ace components from palette view
  

 This integration release includes:

• org-netbeans-modules-icefaceslib.nbm
• org-netbeans-modules-web-frameworks-icefaces.nbm
• org-icefaces-netbeans-modules-web-frameworks-support.nbm

This document contains the following sections:

• Special Note
  
• Changes in this release
• Support
• About ICEfaces

Special note

• In order to support both Mojarra 2 and MyFaces 2, ICEfaces Integration does not include Mojarra library anymore to provide flexibility to users who use MyFaces. This means both JavaServer Faces and ICEfaces web frameworks have to be selected to create ICEfaces project as shown in enclosed Guide.pdf.
  
• Before install these modules, You must update your NetBeans 7 installation with the latest module versions prior to installing the ICEfaces 3.0.0 NetBeans integration

Changes in this release

• bundled with ICEfaces 3.0.0 RC2
• new property metadata to reflect the change in ICEfaces 3 RC1/2
• add ICEmobile support pending to availability of ICEmobile tool bundle

Changes 7.0.4 release

• Included ICEfaces  3.0.0 RC1
• Modified icons for ace components
  

Changes in 7.0.3 release

• Included ICEfaces  2.1.0 beta 2 libraries
  
• Changed some component snippets
• Removed standard JSF settings as now ICEfaces plugins is depended on JavaServer Faces Framework

Changes in 7.0.2 release

• Included ICEfaces  2.1.0 beta libraries
  
• Included ICEfaces components (ice), new advanced components (ace), ICEpush libraries
  
• Added usable component snippets by drag & drop ICEfaces ace components from palette view
• design time metadata, classes, snippets etc are now generated with new generator.
  

Changes 7.0.0

• Support Netbeans 7.0
  
• Included ICEfaces  2.0.2 libraries
  
• Included ICEfaces components (ice), advanced components (ace), ICEpush libraries
  
• ICEfaces component editor support is separated from ICEfaces framework support
  
• Fixed issue with detecting runtime server for existance of JSF 2.0 implementation.

Support

• Open source community support is available at http://www.icefaces.org.
• Refer to the ICEfaces Tools forum for questions and answers specific to this NetBeans IDE integration.
• 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  development project that nds 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  frameworks, such as Spring and JBoss Seam.
• Support for portlet development.

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