ICEfaces

From GroundWork Developer Kit

Contents 1 Overview 2 Architecture 3 Facelets 4 Inter-Portlet Communication 5 Renderer 6 Resources 6.1 ICEfaces Training Presentation for GroundWork 6.2 Tutorials 6.3 Documentation

[edit] Overview

• ICEfaces is an open-source, standards-compliant Ajax-based solution for rapidly creating enterprise grade, pure-Java rich web applications.

[edit] Architecture

• Diagram of ICEfaces Architecture - ICEFaces Developer's Guide, Chapter 2 ICEfaces System Architecture
• Server-Initiated Rendering Architecture - ICEFaces Developer's Guide, Advanced Topics

[edit] Facelets

Facelets provide a templating environment for JSF and eliminate the need for JSP processing. ICEfaces has been integrated with Facelets.

• Refer to the ICEfaces PowerPoint presentation media:GroundworkTrainingIceFaces.ppt for information about:
  • Facelets – Templating, slides 23-28
  • Facelets – Composition Components, slides 29-32
  • Facelets – Creating a component, slides 33-34
  • Facelets – ui:decorator, slide 35
  • Facelets – ui:composition vs ui:decorate, slide 36
  • Facelets – Free Style Expressions, slide 37

[edit] Inter-Portlet Communication

Allows portlets to be updated based on server-side events that change the state of the current view

• Refer to the ICEfaces PowerPoint presentation media:GroundworkTrainingIceFaces.ppt, slide 43

[edit] Renderer

• Server-initiated Rendering (Ajax Push) APIs
• Figure13: Server-Initiated Rendering Architecture: Group Renderers

[edit] Resources

[edit] ICEfaces Training Presentation for GroundWork

• [ICEfaces Webinar: Developing Portlets with ICEFaces in Eclipse] - ICEFaces Eclipse training for Groundwork Open Source Inc.-20081001 1407 Wednesday, October 1, 2008 7:07 am Pacific DT 1 Hour 52 Minutes
  • ICEfaces PowerPoint slides from Webinar presentation

[edit] Tutorials

ICEfaces Tutorials

[edit] Documentation

• ICEfaces Documentation
• ICEfaces In RIA Portals
• ICEFaces Developer's Guide
• Developing Portlets with ICEFaces