Overview

The ICEfaces NetBeans Integration provides ICEfaces support for developers who use the NetBeans IDE for ICEfaces application development. This integration is intended for use with NetBeans 6.8.

 This integration release includes:

1. ICEfaces Project Integration module 6.8.0.1.0 (Beta)
   
2. ICEfaces Library module 2.0.0.0.2 (ICEfaces 2.0.0-Alpha2).
   

This document contains the following sections:

• Changes in this release
• Support
• About ICEfaces

Changes in this release (v6.8.0.beta)

• Support Netbeans v6.8
• Support for ICEfaces 1.8.2a in Java EE 5 or J2EE 1.4 projects (JSF 1.1 or JSF 1.2)
  
• Support ICEfaces 2.0 Alpha 2 in JavaEE 6 projects (JSF 2.0)
  
• Bundled with ICEfaces 1.8.2a and ICEfaces 2.0.0-Alpha2 runtime libraries

• NOTE: The ICEfaces 1.8.2a release consists of official ICEfaces 1.8.2 release plus a patch to resolve issues when deploying a JSF 1.1 or JSF 1.2 ICEfaces project to Glassfish 3. It is necessary to use the ICEfaces 1.8.2a release libraries on Glassfish 3, as the original ICEfaces 1.8.2 runtime libraries will fail with a "JSF 2 not supported" error when used in a JEE5/JSF 1.2 project.
  

Known issues

• Due to an apparent NetBeans bug, creating a second new project (in same IDE session) shortly after an initial project is created (<5 mins) may result in an incorrect Server or JavaEE version being set for the project. For detailed information see ICEfaces JIRA ICE-5336.
  

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 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.

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