Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Countdown to ICEfaces 2.0 - Alpha 1
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JSF 2, and soon ICEfaces too!
As you may know the Sun "Mojarra" JSF 2.0 GA release has just occurred. With the JSF 2.0 runtime in place we're now in the final days of preparation for the corresponding ICEfaces 2.0 Alpha 1 release.
ICEfaces 2.0 represents a truly next-generation Ajax / JSF / Push framework development. We're using everything we've learned from the ICEfaces community throughout the ICEfaces 1.x release cycle to rationalize the ICEfaces feature-set, keeping the stuff that worked well and finding better solutions for everything else. Certainly the new capabilities in JSF 2.0 provide a strong starting point, but there is a lot of work going on now to make ICEfaces 2.0 meet and exceed your expectations. Our goal is nothing less than to make ICEfaces 2.0 the most productive, easy-to-use, and powerful JSF framework anywhere.
Notables:
- Represents a "re-envisioning" of ICEfaces in terms of key features, architecture, and implementation.
- Based-on the JSF 2 specification and runtimes, will require JDK 1.5+
- Is the ICEfaces platform for new feature development and emerging technologies support and integration.
- Will (eventually) include an all new ICEfaces Component Suite with a consistently improved level of component richness, performance, accessibility, and extensibility.
- Unfortunately, the price of great progress in this case is that ICEfaces 2 is not directly backwards compatible with ICEfaces 1.x applications. However, we are well into development of a compatibility library and porting strategy that will ease migration of existing applications, including support for existing custom components, to ICEfaces 2.0.
Ted has more thoughts on JSF 2 and ICEfaces 2.0 here.
...stay tuned for more details on the ICEfaces 2.0 - Alpha 1 release.
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Posted by at 6:38 PM in Entries by Ken Fyten