Friday, 22 January 2010
ICEfaces 2.0 Alpha2 is now available
« GlassFish v3 and ICEfaces 2.0 | Main | Which version of ICEfaces? »ICEfaces 2.0 has reached Alpha 2 and is now available for download. If you're using JSF (or are curious about JSF), now is the time to try JSF 2.0: Facelets is standard, providing an advanced yet easy to use page and component definition language, the new standard View Scope correctly handles multiple windows and tabs, and standard annotations have eliminated tedious XML configuration. ICEfaces 2.0 provides a rich set of components and transparently adds Ajax to the JSF rendering process, giving you an Ajax application without writing a single line of JavaScript or manually adding any Ajax tags. ICEfaces also provides the easiest to use and most powerful Ajax Push API of any web framework in any language (a grand claim? please comment if you disagree).
ICEfaces 2.0 Alpha 1 was a technology preview, intended for experimentation. ICEfaces 2.0 Alpha 2 might have a few known issues (FileUpload is not available, and you may see a few exceptions) but is ready for general prototyping and application development. Porting the ICEfaces 1.8 sample applications was very easy (a couple of hours in each case), so please give us feedback on your porting experience so that we can enhance the compatibility layer and add porting tips to the wiki documentation.
For this release, the most extensive work has gone into the compatibility layer (providing the ICEfaces 1.8 components on JSF 2.0 ... even for Internet Explorer 6) and the standalone Ajax Push library (which is not quite ready to use standalone; more on that in the coming weeks). It's time to begin moving your ICEfaces 1.8 application to ICEfaces 2.0. We look forward to seeing you on the forums.
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Posted by at 7:31 PM in Entries by Ted Goddard
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