Happy Birthday ICEfaces.org !!!
It has been a year now since ICEfaces was launched into open
source and the ICEfaces.org community was created. And what a year it has been! With over 370,000 product downloads and community enrollment
approaching 25,000 developers ICEfaces has quickly become the industry standard
for enterprise Ajax solutions.
Following our open source launch in November of 2006, we set
ourselves three objectives for the upcoming year:
a)
We wanted to grow ICEfaces into the most secure and
interoperable enterprise Ajax solution on the market
b)
We wanted to deliver the best community support in the
industry, and
c)
We wanted to see industry embrace ICEfaces as the leading
enterprise Ajax solution.
Over the last twelve months we have poured resources into
making ICEfaces work well with other leading JEE technologies used by the
ICEfaces community. One year
later, we are the most interoperable enterprise Ajax solution on the market. ICEfaces now leads the industry,
working across 7 of the industry’s most advanced IDEs. We support a matrix of 9 different app
servers, 5 browsers and 5 different third party portals and frameworks. ICEfaces has been embraced by
industry leading middleware and IDE vendors and now ships co-bundled with JBoss
Seam, myEclipse, BEA Weblogic, OpenView and Liferay portal. ICEfaces fully
supports both Opera and Safari browsers and is already seeing enterprise
deployments across a variety of mobile platforms. No other enterprise Ajax
solution can make the same claims.
Our efforts in enhancing Ajax security are also paying
dividends. While the rest of the
Ajax industry has come under increasing scrutiny regarding intrinsic security
holes in their respective technologies, ICEfaces has been busy delivering
solutions with enterprise grade level security to its users. ICEfaces is now a “Defect Free Project”
(has no serious security vulnerabilities) as reported by Fortify Software and
unlike many other solutions ICEfaces prevents cross-site scripting and
unauthorized data mining and is immune to fake form and SQL injection attacks.
At ICEsoft we recognize that effective forum support is
critical to growing a vibrant community of users. Over the course of the last year we responded to over 4,000
forum posts and have contributed over 6,000 man-hours of complimentary support
that ranged from responding to forum posts from community members to providing
one-on-one assistance in debugging user applications. Our most rewarding moments come when we hear back from
community members that the support they receive from the ICEfaces forum is some
of the best they have ever experienced.
The last year has seen tremendous adoption of ICEfaces
across all sectors of industry.
Within a year of launch, ICEfaces is already being used by more than 66%
of Forbes Global and Fortune 100 companies. We are continuously seeing large-scale enterprises
evaluating competitive solutions and standardizing on ICEfaces as their
application framework of choice to deliver rich enterprise applications. Check out our upcoming testimonials
page on ICEfaces.org or look for the “Who’s Using ICEfaces?” revolving banners
to see a sampling of our success to-date within the enterprise space.
Overall it has been an incredible first year! So Happy Birthday to ICEfaces and
thanks to the ICEfaces.org community that has made this phenomenal ride
possible. Rest assured we won’t be
kicking back and taking it easy.
We hope you will continue to work with us to make ICEfaces second year
even more productive and exciting than the first one!
Brian McKinney
