![]() ![]() The template defines the header, body and divs. The facelets template ( template.xhtml) is set up and imported into the index page. I’m viewing this as the first step to an administrative page where a user can both create a game and edit existing games. I am pulling partly from the freely available ICEFaces demo application as a base and creating parts of an admin console for a silly bingo game application. This example application is far from complete. ![]() Here, we will use the following ACE Components: ace:dataTable, ace:tabSet, ace:menuBar, ace:menuItem and ace:tabPane. The ICEsoft website describes ACE Components (Advanced components) as “ideally suited to ICEfaces projects that are able to leverage the power of modern browsers to provide a richer, more dynamic and responsive user-interface.” The ICEsoft website states that ICE components are primarily geared towards legacy browser support, specialized applications and application migration. ICEFaces offer two sets of components: ICE components and ACE components. Just a quick reminder: JSF implementations offer up the basic HTML components while component libraries add the extra stuff to make UI development quick and easy.įor this example, I am using ICEFaces ACE Components. Also note that there are lots of ways to set up a JSF project – I’m using this one for simplicity. JSF ICEFACES DOWNLOADOr you can download your desired implementation manually and setup the library as described in the document.įor this demo, I am using Apache MyFaces. You can select from several JSF implementations. You will need to pick a JSF implementation to use. JSF ICEFACES PDFOpen the PDF guide and step through the Eclipse setup ( hint: if you’ve downloaded the files, be sure to select local content when doing the Eclipse install not the archive). If you want to use ICEFaces, then you will need to go to the website and get the appropriate download. Nor am I pushing IceFaces as the best component library I’m using it as an example because I was recently working on a project where it was successfully used. I am in no way encouraging anyone to stay away (go play with the new frameworks for JavaScript and you will be saying how much fun it can be too. JavaScript can be very fun to work with, especially now in the time of HTML5. ![]() However, in some cases, component libraries can help you get your user interface up and running both quickly and effectively. If you want to have a lot of control over the JavaScript, then this is not the solution. JSF and component libraries are perfect for certain situations, but may not be a good choice at all for others. I would like to first reiterate that what you choose is going to depend on your needs for a particular project. In this post, I would like to give a couple of examples of the kinds of components that can be used to quickly bring up a user interface. Fine-grained user interaction during form entry that augments the standard submit/response loop.This is a continuation of my previous entry on component based Java frameworks.User context preservation during page update, including scrollbar positioning and user focus.Rich AJAX-enabled web applications with no JavaScript development required.Asynchronous server-initiated user-interface updates without polling.Smooth, incremental page updates without full-page refreshes.Using the ICEfaces Component Suite complete JSF applications may be rapidly developed that fully leverage the rich application features that ICEfaces provides: Support for comprehensive component styling via predefined component style sheets that are easily customized.Support for additional attributes for ICEfaces-specific features such as effects, partialSubmit, renderedOnUserRole, etc.Optimized to fully leverage ICEfaces Direct-to-Dom rendering technology providing seamless incremental user-interface updates for all components without full-page refreshes (partial-page rendering).These components provide the following additional benefits over other JSF components: The ICEfaces Component Suite provides a completeset of enhanced standard and custom JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. ![]()
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