ICEfaces Community Edition Beta released
ICEsoft has released a beta of their ICEfaces Community Edition framework. ICEfaces is an ajax framework for JSF, and based on my experience with the alpha version, it is quite good. The one concern I...
View ArticleRich Client Faces
It is really encouraging to see all of the great new JSF (JavaServer Faces) component libraries. Several new component libraries deal with Ajax - a perfect application of JSF, in my opinion. For one,...
View ArticlePulling internationalized content from a database
JSF has excellent i18n support, but sometimes the resource bundle approach won't quite work. What if you need to be able to update content without re-deploying your app? In this short tutorial, I'll...
View ArticleG4jsf
The very cool Ajax4jsf project now has some excellent integration with the Google Web Toolkit, and Sergery Smirnov has written a tutorial showing how to use the two libraries together. He also states:...
View ArticleJBoss Seam Updates
JBoss Seam is, at least in my opinion, one of the most exciting web frameworks in the last several years. I've been keeping an eye on some interesting new features that are coming to it shortly, and...
View ArticleJSF IDE support
I've been using JSF and JPA/Hibernate for several years now, and really like these technologies, despite a few pain points involved in using them. Seam has solved most of them, except for one big one:...
View ArticleCan JBoss and Exadel read minds?
It was just last night that I posted about wanting better IDE support for JSF applications. This morning, Exadel and JBoss announced a new partnership that will open-source Exadel's Eclipse tools and...
View Article5 JSF Myths
I've spent a lot of time developing web applications in JavaServer Faces (JSF). Based on interactions with other Java developers (both in person and via the internet), I've come to realize there are a...
View ArticleJSF Slider Component
Cagatay Civici has posted an example of how to quickly create a JSF slider component, built off of the scriptaculous slider widget. I like this for a few reasons: 1. It shows off an excellent use of...
View ArticleJSF 2.0 JSR Draft
Ed Burns has posted a draft of the JSF 2.0 JSR. I won't re-hash the feature list here, but I do have a few observations. First, I really like the features being proposed, and think they will go a long...
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