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If you're just starting to build a JSF 2 application, or you've already started building one and you'd like to add ICEfaces, it's simple to do: Add and tags JSF 2 includes head and body components that can be added to the page by using the and tags. ICEfaces 2 makes use of these components to automatically add certain scripts and other elements to the page, so the and tags are required on any pages of your application that use ICEfaces 2.

Ajax Push allows the application to incrementally update any part of the page at any time, for any group of clients. This is a small change in terms of the technical capabilities of Ajax applications, but it is a revolutionary change in terms of what applications can actually provide to users. Ajax Push is the key to building collaborative multi-user applications for the web. Under the Hood The intricacies of the Ajax Push implementation are completely transparent to the ICEfaces developer, as you work with a straightforward set of APIs. It is, however, useful to understand the basic mechanics. Ajax Push in ICEfaces 2.0 leverages an asynchronous notification mechanism call ICEpush. Simply put, ICEpush uses long polling to provide asynchronous notification over standard HTTP, using only standard browser capabilities. The sequence of events involved in Ajax Push is illustrated below.

Icefaces is an open source Ajax framework for developing RIA for the web. The applications are structured the same way as JSF applications, but with added Ajax features. In this article there will be a short description of the biggest differences between the IT Mill Toolkit 5.2.0 and Icefaces 1.6.2 based development of RIAs.

The maven2 poms and jars for this distribution are located in the following repository location

Ajax Push enables real-time collaborative applications, based on a mechanism call ICEpush. Check out the Ajax Push overview before delving into the API. ICEpush Library - icepush.jar To enable Ajax Push with ICEfaces 2, you simply include the icepush.jar library with your application.

ICEFaces Netbeans Tutorial for creating Database CRUD

From a technical standpoint Ext GWT and SmartGWT are quite equal apart from the fact that Smart has more to offer on the server side. Vaadin with its complete different apprach (not from the programming style but from runtime behavior) needs to be compared in a different fashion. Things like GUI responsiveness and overall performance must be carefully checked. But on the pro side you have a very small js client with vaadin which results in fast startup in the browser. On the other hand, our product is a business product and we are planing to rewrite the AdminConsole. This is something that will be used in intranets in 95% of the time. It doesnt make much of a differnece if you load 100k or 1Mb from inside the LAN.