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Enterprise Push Server in ICEFaces What is Enterprise Push Server? In ICEfaces EE 2, the Enterprise Push Server (EPS) is built to manage singleAjax Push blocking connection(s) with the client browser and share it with any number of deployed ICEfaces applications and portlets, in both stand-alone and clustered deployments. The Enterprise Push Server delivers key [...]

ICEfaces EE 2.0 is Now Available! ICEfaces Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0 is a JSF 2 ready, enterprise-grade development framework, designed to allow enterprise application developers to quickly design, test and deploy rich collaborative web applications. ICEfaces EE 2.0 provides enterprise-grade features and capabilities not available in ICEfaces 2 open-source releases. It includes additional enterprise technologies, [...]

ICEfaces in Portals with PortletFaces Bridge ICEfaces 2 uses the open source PortletFaces Bridge project to provide a much improved portal development experience. The PortletFaces Bridge is based in part on the JSR 329 standard, and provides advanced support for JSF 2.0 Portal applications. Using the improvements in both JSF 2 and Portlet 2, the [...]

Apache Shale is a Java Server Faces based Web Application Framework from the Apache software foundation. Shale is talked of as the “heir” Apache struts framework. We all know that struts is the most used Java Web Framework so far. While shale is the successor of Struts, there is a significant departure of architecture from [...]

JSF is becoming more popular framework for user interface layer development, many architects and companies assuming that Struts is becoming outdated and JSF is catching up the market. I am not sure whether it is true at this point of time. However I would like express my critic on the advantages and disadvantages of JSF. [...]

By default JSF using GMT timezone to convert the date into display format. Here is a simple solution where you can provide your custom date time converter. 1) Write a new custom converter by extending existing DateTimeConverter class. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 package com.company.project.converter; import java.util.TimeZone; import javax.faces.convert.DateTimeConverter; [...]

The h:graphicImage tag renders an HTML image tag. 1 <h:graphicImage id="jsfimage" value="/images/jsfimage.gif" width="200" height="50" /> h:graphicImage Tag Attributes alt The alt attribute is a standard HTML attribute that sets the alternate textual description rendered by this component. binding The value-binding expression linking this component tag to a backing bean property. dir The dir attribute is [...]

Restore View The JSF servlet builds the view of the requested page as a component tree that contains the information associated with all components. It also saves the view in a FacesContext instance, thereby making it possible to repopulate the page if necessary—for example, when the user doesn’t fill out a form as required. If [...]

JSF 2.0 New Features JSF 2.0 proposal has been posted on March 2007 and planned for the release in last quarter of 2008. It will be shipped with JEE 6.0 release. Looking into the features lits of the JSF 2.0, it is added lots of interesting features in the list and also they are aiming [...]

Internationalization and Localization Internationalization and Localization are important features for an web based application. Internationalization is implementing the features in your application to support multiple languages. Localization is creating text in a specific language that is presented through an internationalized application The following example program demonstrates very simple program for implementing this concepts. if you [...]