ICEfaces®
EE 2.0.0 GA/1.8.2.GA_P03 Tool Bundle for Eclipse
2.0.2
July 4th,
2011
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Overview
This ICEfaces EE Eclipse Integration provides ICEfaces EE 2.0.0 GA
/1.8.2.GA_P03 support
for developers who use Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers 3.7 (Indigo)
and 3.6 (Helios) for ICEfaces EE 2.0.0 GA/1.8.2.GA_P03 application
development. Note that both
ICEfaces
EE 2.0.0 GA and ICEfaces EE 1.8.2.GA_P03 are supported in this release.
ICEfaces EE 2.0.0 GA is the
version
to run with JavaServer Faces 2 on JavaEE 6 and 5 application server
and ICEfaces EE 1.8.2.GA_P03 is the version to run with JavaServer
Faces 1.2 or 1.1. This
integration extends Eclipse's Web Tools Platform (WTP) and provides
following extra features for ICEfaces support.
- Adds ICEfaces EE 2.0.0.GA libraries: ICEfaces
Core,
ICEfaces
Component, advanced Component, composite component and
ICEpush libraries to JSF projects
- Adds ICEfaces EE 1.8.2.GA_P03 libraries: ICEfaces
Core,
ICEfaces
facelets, Composite component and support library to JSF
projects
- Configures project for ICEfaces EE support
- Creates ICEfaces EE sample page
- Enabled all ICEfaces components on Eclipse Visual JSF Page
Designer
- Provided visual editing capabilities; Drag & drop
components onto page, edit properties via properties editor, etc.
Changes in 2.0.2 release
- Added support for Eclipse 3.7 (Indogo)
- Fixed issue ICEfaces bundled theme image not available in design
time view.
Changes in 2.0.1 release
- Included ICEfaces EE 2.0.0 GA and ICEfaces EE 1.8.2.GA_P03
libraries
- Included support for both ICEfaces EE 2.0.0 GA and ICEfaces EE
1.8.2.GA_P03
- Included many fixes on ICEfaces visual page editor support.
Changes in 2.0.0 release
- Includes ICEfaces EE 2.0.0 GA runtime libraries including
ICEfaces
core, ICEfaces component (ice), Advanced Component (ace), ICEfaces
Composite Component (ice-cc), and ICEpush
libraries.
- Introduces ICEfaces plugin library provider framework for
ICEfaces EE.
- Separates ICEfaces designtime plugin from ICEfaces core support
feature
- Updated ICEfaces sample pages.
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.
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