Archive: January 2016

Using Client Validators with ICEfaces 4.1

Posted on Thursday, January 7th, 2016 by Ken Fyten

ICEfaces 4.1 introduces a new set of client validator components which can be used to perform validation in the browser without the need to first submit the data to the server, thus avoiding server round-trips and providing a more responsive user-experience.

The new validation component ... read more

ICEfaces 4.0 Final Released!

Posted on Friday, November 14th, 2014 by Ken Fyten

The ICEfaces 4.0 final release is now available!

Release Highlights  (final stats)

  • 25 new integrated ICEfaces Mobile Components (MOBI), including Native device support via BridgeIt.
  • 9 new, and 30 enhanced ACE Components.
  • 4 new ICECORE components, with additional JavaScript APIs for ICEfaces bridge features.
  • Targets (and requires) JSF 2.2, a ... read more

ICEfaces 4.0 Beta Released!

Posted on Monday, March 24th, 2014 by Ken Fyten

The long-anticipated ICEfaces 4.0 Beta release has arrived featuring first-class JSF 2.2 support and new mobile JSF components for accessing native-device functions in your JSF web-applications.

Release Highlights:

  • 25 new integrated ICEfaces Mobile Components (MOBI), inclu ... read more

ICEfaces 4.0 Roadmap Update

Posted on Friday, October 18th, 2013 by Ken Fyten

I’m pleased to announce that the next ICEfaces release will be 4.0!

ICEfaces 4.0 will provide JSF 2.2 platform support in ICEfaces, including integration with JSF 2.2 features such as HTML5 pass-through attributes, and resetValues support. In addition to being based on JSF 2.2, we have many exciting new features and improvements planned for this release:

New Components in ICEfaces 3.3

Posted on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 by Ken Fyten

I’m pleased to announce that ICEfaces 3.3 is now available. This massive release includes:

  • 12 new features, including:
    • 7 all-new ACE components
    • A new framework-level resource coalescing feature for optimized network utiliza ... read more

ICEfaces Roadmap Update

Posted on Monday, December 3rd, 2012 by Ken Fyten

As we approach the end of 2012 I wanted to provide a quick overview of the near-term ICEfaces release roadmap. Of course, there are some very exciting ICEmobile and ICEpdf releases coming soon as well, but I’ll limit this post to ICEfaces.

  • ICEfaces EE 1.8.2.GA_P05 will shipping in the next day or two. This is the 5th maintenance patch in support of our ICEfaces Enterprise Ed ... read more

What’s New in the ICEfaces 3.2 Beta?

Posted on Friday, September 28th, 2012 by Ken Fyten

The ICEfaces 3.2 Beta release is out now and introduces the following key new features:

New ACE Components

  • ace:gMap
    • All-new implementation based on Google Maps JavaScript API v3.
    • The ace:gMap component has a large number of helper subcomponents:
      • ace:gMapControl – Modify the controls that appe ... read more

Progressive, Responsive, and Adaptive aspects of ICEmobile

Posted on Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 by Cruz Miraback

ICEmobile components use a variety of approaches to tailor themselves to a specific desktop or mobile browser. (Note that the approach that is best for a framework like ICEmobile that has server-side capability is often different from a pure HTML approach where server-side code is difficult to modify.)

The most efficient is to generate simple, port ... read more

ICEfaces 3.1 Released

Posted on Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 by Ken Fyten

ICEsoft is pleased to announce the release of ICEfaces 3.1!

ICEfaces 3.1 is an official feature ... read more

Mobile JSF Quick Start

Posted on Thursday, July 12th, 2012 by Cruz Miraback

The ICEmobile bundle come with two JSF samples applications; mediacast and mobileshowcase.  These demos are a good starting point for experienced JSF developers, but can be a little daunting for developers new to JSF or to the mobile space in general.

A four part tutorial series is now available on the ICEmobile Wiki to h ... read more