ICEfaces®
Integration for Eclipse Galileo (v3.5)
v1.8.2.GA
December 1st,
2009
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Overview
ICEfaces Integration for Eclipse provides ICEfaces and ICEfaces
Facelets support for developers who use
Eclipse IDE for Java
EE Developers (Galileo) v3.5 for
ICEfaces application development. This release
is built on Eclipse v3.5.1 with WTP (Web Tools Platform) v3.1.1.
This integration provides the following features:
- Installs ICEfaces, ICEfaces Facelets, and JSF Facelets Tools
Incubator
- Accesses a new ICEfaces Eclipse update site hosted on
www.icefaces.org to provide a list of available ICEfaces runtime
libraries for use with the integration. Currently, ICEfaces 1.8.1
runtimes are available. Future ICEfaces runtime library releases
(1.8.2, etc.) can be directly accessed via this tool integration
without requiring uninstalling and re-installing the Eclipse
integration itself.
- Adds ICEfaces, ICEfaces Facelets, and dependent libraries to JSF
projects
- Configures project web.xml and faces-config.xml files for
ICEfaces
- Provides ICEfaces/Facelets friendly JSP/JSPX page templates
- Adds ICEfaces components to the Eclipse Visual JSF Page Designer
(part of JSF-JSP Editor)
- Visual editing of JSF pages; Drag & drop components onto
page, edit properties via properties editor, etc.
This release includes
- ICEfaces Eclipse tools
- ICEfaces Facelets support tools
- Eclipse JSF Facelets Tools
This document contains the following sections:
Special Note
Due to the change in Eclipse Galileo (v3.5), local plugin/feature
sites, which do not have category, will not show up in Available
Software list by default even though a correct location of local update
site for ICEfaces Tooling is defined. Ensure Group items by category is
unchecked in Available Software
wizard page while installing ICEfaces Tooling for Eclipse.
Check step 3 in Installation section of ReadMe.pdf for detail.
Changes In this Release
Known Issues
- Due to the long-run
newly created project validation process, newly created project may
disappear for a short while. The work around currently would be refresh
your workspace.
- ICEfaces EE Facelets support for Eclipse
is
built on top of Eclipse WTP/JSF and Facelets module. Eclipse Web Page
Editor (JSF visual designer) doesn't fully support Facelets such as
ui:include/ui:composit etc.
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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2005-2009 ICEsoft Technologies, Inc.