ICEfaces^® EE RAD Integration

v1.8.2.GA_P01

Nov 30, 2009

Overview

ICEfaces EE RAD Integration provides ICEfaces EE support for developers who use Rational Application Developer v7.5.x for ICEfaces application development. This release is built on RAD v7.5.3 but it should work for all v7.5.x.

This release includes

ICEfaces EE RAD integration tools
ICEfaces EE Runtime Library v1.8.2.GA_P01
ICEfaces EE dependent libraries
ICEfaces integration for RAD Page Designer (ICEfaces Library Definition project)

This release includes ICEfaces EE integration for the RAD Page Designer, via a new ICEfaces definition project to support RAD Page Designer. The ICEfaces definition project is required to be imported into your workspace if you wish to use the beta version of ICEfaces integration for RAD Page Designer (The use of the RAD Page Designer is optional).

Notes on WAS 7.0.0.1

ICEfaces projects created in RAD 7.5.x have problem running on WAS 7.0.0.1 as you may notice such a ZipException in RAD console view as E ClassScanner scanInputStream Exception occurred while scanning input stream:{0} java.util.zip.ZipException: ZipFile closed at java.util.zip.ZipFile.ensureOpenOrZipException(ZipFile.java:424). This is not an issue in ICEfaces. Upgrade to WAS 7.0.0.1 to higher version solves this problem.

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 athttp://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.