ICEFaces 2.0.0, the next generation JSF/AJAX toolkit for JSF has been
released. Version 2 of ICEFaces is designed specifically for JSF 2.
ICEFaces extends JSF by providing AJAX and Push support along with a comprehensive catlog of user controls that allow developers to efficiently build Rich Internet Applications.
Some of the new features available with ICEFaces 2 include:
- Automatic AJAX: Developers no longer need to wire pages together using the <f:ajax/> tag.
- AJAX Push: Application state changes can be pushed to other users of your application.
- Portlet Development: ICEFaces 2 supports the PortletsFaces Bridge implementation of JSR-329.
- JS Client API: Extended client side JavaScript API.
- Simplified configuration and dependencies: Minimal configuration is required to use ICEFaces 2 which requires no 3rd party external dependencies.
- Rich User Interface Components: Many components are provided including theming/skinning and W3C accessibility.
A full list of new features available with ICEFaces 2 can be found
here.
ICEFaces can be downloaded from the project
site or can be added to applications using
Maven.
The Seam team have
announced that Weld Extensions has been renamed to Seam Solder and have released version 3.0.0.Beta1.
Seam Solder is "a library of Generally Useful Stuff (tm) for developing applications, extensions or frameworks based on CDI (JSR-299: Java Contexts and Dependency Injection).". The library is portable across all different CDI runtimes including JBoss AS 6, GlassFish 3.1 and Tomcat 6.
Seam Solder provides many features to developers using CDI, but does not depend upon Seam. Several enhancements to the CDI programming model are provided that may make it into future versions of the CDI sec. This includes annotations to exclude classes from being processed (@Veto) and to include the full package and class name in bean names (@FullyQualified). Many other useful features are available suce as the ability to evaluate EL, log directly from beans and load resources via annotations.
The latest documentation for Seam Solder can be found
here and the software itself can be downloaded from
here. If you are a Maven user, full details of how to use Seam Solder in a Maven environment are provided
here.
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