#Icefaces 2016 how to#
#Icefaces 2016 update#
#Icefaces 2016 skin#
#Icefaces 2016 code#

Starting richfaces is not too complex even by adding file manually, as it requires the core library + UI library + 3 mandatory dependencies. Richfaces documentation does not contain a kickstart tutorial, the official docs is mostly focused on Maven which is a widely adopted standard, yet not the only one adopted by developers. You can use it completely free in open source or commercial projects following the terms of the license. If this does not seem enough, you can also look at PrimeFaces Extensions ( ) which is an open source project licensed under Apache License V2. It also has more built-in themes (about 25) than that is available in Richfaces and IceFaces.

#Icefaces 2016 skin#

Primefaces is easier to skin since it is based on themeroller. It’s avoided on purpose other JS / UI frameworks in order to have a high compatibility between components. This suite uses behind the scenes, jQuery with its amazing widgets, plugins, themes and Ajax interactions. Primefaces features a rich set of 117 components (core components + variants) ( )which include, besides the standard set of components also many goodies like HtmlEditors, Charts, date Schedule and an Excel data exporter beside the others. Currently featuring over 40 components including the ace:dataTable, the ACE Components utilize a blend of server-side and client-based rendering techniques to provide a rich, responsive user-experience with reduced network and server-processing requirements. Icefaces contains about 70 core components ( )Īdditionally, you can plug-in the The ACE Components (ICEfaces Advanced Components) which are the next-generation of open source ICEfaces components. This seems a quite promising area, however it seems lacking some concrete examples of it through the net- the only one I have been available to find is

#Icefaces 2016 code#

It’s only necessary to specify meta-data and a code specific for your component. The significant features of the Component Development Kit (CDK) are: quick development (template based) start and declarative approach for a component development. The number of components has not grown so much in the last years, however RF ships with a Component Development Kit (CDK) – a sub-project that allows you to easily create rich components with built-in Ajax support.

Richfaces, according to the showcase, contains about 39 core components and “variants” (11 core components, 6 panels, 9 tables-grid,1 tree, 4 toolbar,8 menu). This can be useful, especially if you don’t have time to evaluate all of them. Nevertheless we would like to point out which are, in our opinion, the coolest featurest of each of these component suites. PrimeFaces ( ) is Prime Technology Ultimate JSF Component Suite.Īt first a premise: we don’t pretend by any means to establish which is the best JSF component library: all these libraries have reached a mature release and they are widely and successfully adopted. Icefaces ( ) is Icesoft powerful Rich Internet application framework. Richfaces ( ) is JBoss JSF component framework. In this tutorial we will compare three commonly used libraries which are used on the top of your JSF implementation.

#Icefaces 2016 how to#

We recommend reading these guidelines, if you want to modernize your Richfaces or Icefaces application: How to migrate Richfaces Web applications to another Web UI Among the three frameworks mentioned in this article, Primefaces is the only one which is being actively developed and widely used. JSF is still included in Jakarta EE plans, which makes it still a standard solutionģ. The popularity of JSF has declined quite a bit in the last yearsĢ. Anyhow, it can account on a very limited number of users.ġ.

#Icefaces 2016 update#

Icefaces is still being developed in its Enterprise edition yet the Community version has not received any update since 2018.

Richfaces reached the End of Life in 2016 and it's not being maintained by any organization. Ten years later things changed quite a bit:

Important notice: This tutorial has been written in 2010 when JSF was still quite popular as UI framework with many frameworks available on the top of it.