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ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA_P03 Release Notes

May 29th, 2015

About This Release

ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA_P03 is a certified ICEfaces Enterprise Edition maintenance patch release.

Contents

These Release Notes include the following sections:


Downloads

ICEfaces EE is available in both binary and source download bundles, as well as in IDE integration bundles for supported IDEs.

ICEfaces EE downloads are available on the www.icesoft.org download page.

Changes in EE 3.3.0.GA_P03

ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA_P03 (Patch 3) includes over 170 fixes and improvements.

Additional Platform Support

The following recent platform releases have been added as Supported Platforms in this release:

  • JBoss EAP 6.3
  • JBoss WildFly 8.2
  • Improved support for Internet Explorer 11.

ACE Components

67 bugs fixed, plus the new features and enhancements noted below.

New Components:

  • JIRA - icecore:focusManager - Add complete focusManager support to 3.x.
  • JIRA - Add icecore:idleMonitor to the 3.3.x maintenance branch.

Enhanced Components:

  • ace:autoCompleteEntry
    JIRA - autoCompleteEntry does not support objects as values with conversion.
  • ace:column
    JIRA - ace:column - Add new "sortWhenGrouping" boolean attribute to optionally support grouping without sorting.
    JIRA - ace:column - Add new "hideSortControls" attribute.
    JIRA - ace:column - Use keyboard to activate sort buttons.
  • ace:dialog
    JIRA - ace:dialog - Add new "none" value for "setFocus" attribute.
    JIRA - ace:dialog - Trigger Ajax close event on Escape keypress.
  • ace:dataTable
    JIRA - ace:dataTable - Add a 'caption' attribute.
    JIRA - Increase height of background image for active and hover states in Sam theme.
  • ace:fileEntry
    JIRA - ace:fileEntry - Callback handler submits before the JSF lifecycle starts.
  • ace:gMap
    JIRA - ace:gMap - Add an actionListener when a gMapEvent is triggered.
    JIRA - ace:gMapEvent, add 'disabled' attribute.
    JIRA - ace:gMap - Add support for multiple subcomponent instances.
  • ace:menuBar
    JIRA - ace:menuBar - Add a maxHeight attribute.
  • ace:rowEditor
    JIRA - ace:rowEditor - re-apply focus to row editor buttons after toggling edit mode.
  • ace:subMenu
    JIRA - ace:submenu - Set width depending on contents.
    JIRA - ace:submenu - Add an action/actionListener or ajax event.
  • ace:submitMonitor
    JIRA - ace:submitMonitor - Enable monitor for use with ace:fileEntry.
  • ace:textEntry
    JIRA - ace:textEntry, ace:textAreaEntry - Add new "charCount" client event.
  • ace:textAreaEntry
    JIRA - ace:textAreaEntry - Add a 'readonly' and 'disabled' attribute.
    JIRA - ace:textEntry, ace:textAreaEntry - Add new "charCount" client event.
  • ace:tooltip
    JIRA - ace:tooltip - Add the capability to dynamically render a tooltip when used with a dataTable.

ICE Components

  • 14 bugs fixed.

EE Composite Components

  • 10 bugs fixed.

Core Framework

JIRA - icecore:focusManager - Allow focus to be set on Ajax updates.
JIRA - icecore:config - Add lazyWindowScope attribute.
JIRA - Increase windowScopeExpiration default to greater than 1000 millis.

  • 25 bugs fixed.

ICEpush

JIRA - Subdue noisy logging for icepush when browser window is closed before response returns to view.
JIRA - Make settings of PushStormDetectionServer configurable.
JIRA - Throttle push instead of shutting down when Push Storm is detected.
JIRA - Add httpOnly and secure attributes to the ice.push.browser Cookie.
JIRA - Switch from using a .p12 keystore to a .jks keystore for the APNSNotificationProvider.
JIRA - Callback mechanism for error-free blocking connection running.
JIRA - When APNS properties aren't set the APNS Notification Provider should be off.

  • 12 bugs fixed.

Samples

  • ICEfaces Showcase Sample Application
    • Several demonstration panels have been added or updated to illustrate key features of the new and improved ACE components.

JSF Runtimes

  • The MyFaces JSF library included in this release has been updated to 2.1.17.
Change Logs
For a complete list of all changes in this release since the previous ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA_P02 release, see the related JIRA Change Logs:


Changes in EE 3.3.0.GA_P02

ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA_P02 (Patch 2) includes over 200 fixes and improvements.

Additional Platform Support

The following recent platform releases have been added as Supported Platforms in this release:

  • IBM WebSphere AS 8.5.5
  • JBoss EAP 6.1
  • JBoss WildFly 8
  • Liferay Portal 6.2
  • In addition, support for clustered EPS deployments has been added for RedHat JBoss EAP 6.

ACE Components

107 Bugs fixed, plus the new features and enhancements noted below.

New Components:

  • JIRA - New ace:buttonGroup container
  • JIRA - New ace:radioButton component

Enhanced Components:

  • ace:autoCompleteEntry
    • JIRA - Removed unsupported "onclick, etc." pass-through attributes from component TLD docs
  • ace:chart
    • JIRA - Add "varyBarColor" property
    • JIRA - Add "barWidth" property
    • JIRA - Allow for the exported image to be downloaded with a single click
  • ace:comboBox
    • JIRA - Remove unsupported "onclick, etc." pass-through attributes from component TLD docs
  • ace:dialog
    • JIRA - Add new "setFocus" attribute
  • ace:dataTable
    • JIRA - Now automatically supports maintaining header and body column hierarchy with ace:columnGroup
    • JIRA - Add new "rowClick" and "rowDblClick" ace:ajax events
    • JIRA - Support Page Up Page Down Keyboard Pagination in ace:dataTable
    • JIRA - Support localized text in paginatorTemplate
    • JIRA - Remove paginator dependency on YUI (reduces resource requirements)
    • JIRA - Support for IE10 clear icon for filter input fields
    • JIRA - Corrected issue with filter value always being set to lower case / filter value not shown in drop down. This may affect existing application behaviour as the filtering function no longer sets the filter value to lowercase. Any existing filtering logic that depends on the previous .toLowerCase behaviour will require updating.
  • ace:fileEntry
    • JIRA - Add support for Servlet 3 multi-part uploads.
      • When running on a Servlet 3 compatible server (such as WAS 8.x, WebLogic 12c, JBoss Wildfly 8, and Glassfish 3) additional Servlet 3 / multipart configuration entries are required in the web.xml for ace:fileEntry.
      • See the ace:FileEntry Wiki Topic for more information.
  • ace:rowEditor
    • JIRA - Add support for reverting user edits when clicking the 'X' button
    • JIRA - Keep row in edit mode when validation fails
  • ace:tableConfigPanel
    • JIRA - Add built in support for ace:columnGroup
    • JIRA - Support for keeping stacked columns together
    • JIRA - Support localizable label text
  • ace:textEntry
    • JIRA - Add "secret" attribute
  • ace:maskedEntry
    • JIRA - Remove unsupported "onclick, etc." pass-through attributes from component TLD docs
  • ace:richTextEntry
    • JIRA - Updated CKEditor to version 4.3 (required for IE11 support).
      • When running on IE7 only the older CKEditor 3.6.6 will be used as IE7 is not supported by v4.3.
      • Note that the skinning scheme used by CKeditor has changed in v4.3 and the previous support for changing the CKEditor skin via the "skin" attribute is not supported in this release on none-IE7 browsers. Support for additional skins is planned for a future release, please contact ICEsoft Support if you have questions or concerns with this.
  • 3rd Party JavaScript Libraries
    • Update jQuery to v1.7
    • Update CKEditor library to 4.3 for all browsers except IE7, which will use 3.6.6.1 instead for compatibility.
    • Update jQuery Timepicker Addon to v1.2.0
    • Update jQuery UI to v1.8.24
    • Update qTip library to 2.2.0
    • Update Wijmo library to 3.0.6
    • See the icefaces/lib/versions-licenses.html file in the release bundle for details on all included libraries.

ICE Components

  • JIRA Provide caching control headers for the 'compat' resources.
  • 15 bugs fixed.

EE Composite Components

  • ice-cc:richDataGrid
    • JIRA - Add ability to disable the confirmation dialog for deleting a record.
    • JIRA - Add easier createNewRow methods.
  • 4 bugs fixed.

Core Framework

  • JIRA - Add support for "sessionExpiredRedirectURI" config param
  • JIRA - Name the faces-config.xml resources to allow ordering of resources
  • JIRA - Add timestamps to JavaScript console log entries
  • JIRA - Fix CVE-2014-0050 DoS with malformed Content-Type header and multipart request processing
  • 15 bugs fixed.

ICEpush

  • JIRA - ICEpush now works in cookie less mode
  • 9 bugs fixed.

EPS (Enterprise Push Server)

  • JIRA - Add support for java.naming.security.principal and java.naming.security.credentials to the JMSAdapter

Load Testing

  • JIRA - The ICEfaces bridge now requires that the "ice.push.browser" cookie be defined and processed in each transaction. This will impact existing load testing scripts.

Samples

  • ICEfaces Showcase Sample Application
    • JIRA - Make showcase ACE DataTable cell selection sample use simplified EL
    • JIRA - Add showcase ace:dataTable demo to demonstrate persistence of ace:tableConfigPanel user settings
    • Several new demonstration panels have been added to illustrate key features of the new and improved ACE components.
  • AuctionMonitor Sample Application
    • JIRA - AuctionMonitor input bid fields should update to the highest bid + 1.00

JSF Runtimes

  • The Mojarra JSF library included in this release has been updated to v2.1.28.
  • The MyFaces JSF library included in this release has been updated to 2.1.15.
Change Logs
For a complete list of all changes in this release since the previous ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA_P01 release, see the related JIRA Change Logs:


Changes in EE 3.3.0.GA_P01

ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA_P01 (Patch 1) includes over 40 improvements and fixes, including an important fix for an issue introduced in EE 3.3.0.GA that can cause larger than required partial-page updates to occur, potentially resulting in unexpected component state-changes in the browser, and/or a decrease in application rendering performance. See JIRA for details.

ACE Components

  • JIRA - ace:chart - Export image to server
  • JIRA - ace:comboBox - Issues when SelectItem label and value don't match
  • JIRA - ace:comboBox filter is applied to item value and not the label
  • JIRA - ace:dataTable navigateToRow() doesn't work when result not visible
  • JIRA - ace:dataTable > Pin Columns - Selection and then pinning causes table misalignment
  • JIRA - ace:dataTable - Scrollable dataTable column misalignment in IE9/10
  • JIRA - ace:tableConfigPanel - Header value defined in a facet not displayed in panel
  • JIRA - ace:tableConfigPanel - PropertyNotWritableException thrown
  • JIRA - ace:dataExporter Composite Component Backing Bean Attribute Issue
  • JIRA - ace:dateTimeEntry stops working in editable ace:dataTable
  • JIRA - ace:dateTimeEntry - Clicking Today button closes popup
  • JIRA - DateTimeEntry, interacted with, then client side cleanup, not clearing widgetVar
  • JIRA - WebSphere 8.5 - ee-composite-showcase - File Upload Progress demo fails uploading files with name containing special characters
  • JIRA - ace:list > Submitting selection inside iterative container causes de-select (MyFaces)
  • JIRA - ace:maskedEntry > keypress Ajax Event Failure
  • JIRA - ace:menu - Dispose window called when selecting menuItem in IE
  • JIRA - IceClientBehaviorHolder specify their AjaxBehaviorEvent subclass
  • JIRA - ace:notificationPanel - Panel is displayed behind the ace:tabSet
  • JIRA - ace:selectMenu - not showing the selected item if the list contains one item
  • JIRA - ace:textEntry fails to submit required fields after failed validation (MyFaces only)
  • JIRA - ace:tooltip > Tooltip renders in incorrect location in IE8 + IE10 JS error
  • JIRA - Converter issues in ACE autocomplete and selection components

ICE Components

  • JIRA - Non-thread safe DateFormat usage causing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
  • JIRA - DateFormat utility is not thread safe
  • JIRA - ConcurrentModificationException in InputRichTextResourceHandler
  • JIRA - ice:selectOneMenu/selectOneRadio - focus lost after updating component style
  • JIRA - ice:selectInputText - forces focus on itself after focus was moved to another element
  • JIRA - ice:selectInputText - 2 tab clicks needed to move to next input in IE9
  • JIRA - Compat broken theme image links in CSS

Core Framework

  • JIRA - Add ability to configure the base path of an application (was: Port ICE-7941 feature into ICEfaces 3.x codebase)
  • JIRA - DOM clone/copy reduces adjacent TEXT nodes which causes unintended DOM differences, so javascript executes redundantly
  • JIRA - Make Diff propagated to root but no ID set error debug logging configurable
  • JIRA - RuntimeException: Cannot clone document
  • JIRA - Resource coalescing omitting fileentry.js

Portlets

Support for WebSphere Portal 7 has been discontinued in this release.
Please contact ICEsoft Support if you have any questions or concerns.
  • JIRA - Resource coalescing does not work in a portlet environment
  • JIRA - Some EE-specific resources get loaded multiple times with portlets
  • JIRA - Portlets showing Network Connected Interrupt Dialog when session expires (requires LiferayFaces 3.1.4-ga5).

ICEpush EE

  • JIRA - PushRenderer.removeCurrentSession does not stop push heartbeat

Sample Applications

  • ICEfaces Showcase
  • JIRA - ICEfaces Showcase, some demo Java Source Code files map to the wrong files
  • JIRA - showcase - ace:TextEntry - missing validation message
  • New CDI Sample for WebSphere 8
  • JIRA - Support for ICEfaces CDI applications on WebSphere 8
Change Logs
For a complete list of all changes in this release since the previous ICEfaces EE 3.3.0.GA release, see the related JIRA Change Logs:


Key Features

ICEfaces Enterprise Edition includes a suite of enterprise software and documentation that will enhance your ICEfaces project from development, through testing and deployment. In addition to high quality certified software and tools, ICEfaces EE includes direct access to the extensive knowledge and expertise of our technical team.

ICEfaces-EE provides the following exclusive Enterprise features in addition to all of the features available in ICEfaces:

Certified Software

ICEfaces EE has been certified against a wide-range of supported commercial and open-source application servers, portal-containers, and 3rd-party frameworks. See the Supported Platforms section for details.

Enterprise Components

ICEfaces EE includes the EE Components. The EE Components are exclusive to ICEfaces EE and are not available in the open-source ICEfaces project.

  • EE Accessible Components - a set of components, based on the ICEfaces ICE components, that have been modified and optimized for use in application environments with strict WCAG accessibility requirements, including the need to support client browsers that have no support for JavaScript, or have JavaScript disabled.
  • EE Composite Components - an extensive set of Facelet-composition components that provide ready-to-use functionality for common enterprise application tasks, such as dual-list, tree-table, and schedule.
The EE Composite Components are tag-compatible with the ICEfaces EE 1.8 Composite Components, providing a straight-forward migration to 2.0 for existing ICEfaces EE 1.8 projects.

Enterprise Push Server (EPS)

The Enterprise Push Server extends the standard Ajax Push capabilities of open-source ICEfaces with these critical enterprise-grade features:

  • Multi-application Support.  EPS supports concurrent use of multiple ICEfaces push-enabled applications on the same application server (host-name) in the same client browser.  The ICEfaces open-source ICEpush library can only support a single push application from the same server (host-name) in the same browser at one time.
  • Distributed management of blocking push connections across a cluster for increased application scalability.
  • Load-balancing of Ajax Push connections across a cluster for increased application scalability.
  • Fail over of Ajax Push connections across a cluster for high application availability.
  • Asynchronous Request Processing (ARP) integration on application servers with Servlet 3.0 support for increased Ajax Push scalability.

Core Framework Extensions

ICEfaces EE includes the core framework extensions library that can improve the ICEfaces experience on EE-certified platforms:

  • Support for Legacy Internet Explorer (IE) Browsers (IE6 / IE7). The standard JSF libraries don't always process dynamic Ajax DOM updates in a manner that older IE browsers can fully support, often resulting in dynamic DOM element changes not being rendered properly in the browser. ICEfaces EE provides core framework extensions to work-around these JSF limitations, providing a more reliable and consistent user-experience on IE6 and IE7 browsers.
  • Embedded HTML Compatibility for JSF 1.x Facelets Applications - Configurable support for wrapping HTML markup in Facelets pages into components at runtime. This provides perfect backwards compatibility with ICEfaces 1.8 Facelets applications that otherwise would see adverse side-effects from differences in how Facelets processes embedded HTML markup between JSF 1 and 2.

PortletFaces Bridge Extensions

ICEfaces EE provides the PortletFacesBridge Extensions library that adds features required to support commercial portal containers, such as WebSphere Portal.

Sample Applications

IDE Integrations

Custom IDE integrations for ICEfaces EE features, including new project wizard, new page templates, and visual-design support (where available) for the following IDEs:

  • Eclipse 3.7, 3.8, 4.2
  • IBM RAD 8.5 & IBM RSA 8.5
  • MyEclipse 2013
  • NetBeans 7.3
  • Oracle Enterprise Pack Eclipse 3.8 (oepe-juno)

Project Builder

The Project Builder wizard application generates a working ICEfaces EE application template based on developer question-and-answer inputs.

Functional & Load Testing Documentation, Tutorials, and Reference Materials

The ICEfaces EE Wiki includes extensive documentation, tutorials, and reference materials that clearly explain and demonstrate successful testing techniques for use with ICEfaces.

Deployment Guides

The ICEfaces EE Wiki provides extensive configuration and deployment guides for all supported application server and portal container platforms. In addition, server-specific step-by-step instructions are provided to enable fast, successful deployments for each of the following deployment scenarios:

  • Stand-alone server
  • Stand-alone server w/ EPS
  • Clustered server w/ EPS (including fail-over)

Migration Guide

An ICEfaces 2 to ICEfaces 3 Migration Guide is available for those wishing to migrate their existing ICEaces 2.x applications to ICEfaces 3.0.


Supported Platforms

JSF Runtimes

  • Oracle Mojarra JSF 2.1.3-2.1.6, 2.1.18, 2.1.19, 2.1.21 - 2.1.28 (included).
  • Apache MyFaces JSF 2.1.9-2.1.17 (included).

Browsers

  • Chrome 42
  • Firefox 24.5 (ESR) - 38
  • IE 7 - 11
  • Safari 7, 8

Mobile Browsers

  • Apple iOS Safari
  • Google Android Chrome
  • RIM BlackBerry OS6 WebKit Browser

Application Servers

Specific installation and configuration information for some platforms can be found in the [Server Configuration Appendices].

  • Apache Tomcat 6, 7
  • IBM WebSphere AS 7, 8
  • Oracle Glassfish v3.1
  • Oracle WebLogic Server 11g (10.3.0 - 10.3.6), 12c
  • RedHat JBoss AS 5, 6, 7, WildFly 8
  • RedHat JBoss EAP 6

Portal Containers

  • Apache Pluto 2.0.3
  • Liferay Portal 5, 6

Apache Pluto Portlet deployments require the PortletFaces Bridge library. Note that the version of the PortletFaces Bridge that is currently shipped with ICEfaces includes fixes that aren't available with the generally released version. Ensure you use the copy of the library that ships with ICEfaces.

When using Liferay, specific versions of the Liferay Faces Bridge must be used for each Liferay release version. See the Liferay Faces Version Scheme page for details.

When using the Liferay Faces Bridge, the portletfaces-bridge-2.0.2-ice-7875.jar should not be included in the class path.

Enterprise Push Server (EPS) Supported Platforms

Server Stand-alone Clustered
Apache Tomcat 6 Yes Yes 1
Apache Tomcat 7 Yes Yes 1
IBM WebSphere AS 7 Yes Yes
IBM WebSphere AS 8
Yes
Yes
Oracle GlassFish 3.1 Yes  
Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.0 - 10.3.4 Yes  
Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.5 - 10.3.6 Yes Yes
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c
Yes
 
RedHat JBoss AS 5.0 Yes Yes
RedHat JBoss AS 6.0 Yes  
RedHat JBoss AS 7.0, 7.1
Yes  
RedHat JBoss EAP 6
Yes Yes

1 Requires ActiveMQ 5 for JMS support


Known Issues

The following section describes the most commonly encountered known issues with this release:

General

  • JSPs are not supported by ICEfaces 3 - use Facelets.
  • It is required to specify "h:head" and "h:body" tags in your ICEfaces application pages.
  • Applications must avoid the use of "javascript: void(0)" in browser DOM event handlers as this technique causes the "onBeforeOnload" event handler to be called in IE, which results in the ICEfaces bridges shutting down (thinking that the page is being navigated away from).

deltaSubmit

  • The following standard "h:" components are not supported by the deltaSubmit feature (due to a problematic rendering technique that they utilize):
    • h:selectOneMenu
    • h:selectManyMenu
    • h:selectOneListbox
    • h:selectManyListbox
  • The work-around is to use similar alternative components instead, such as ace:simpleSelectOneMenu, ace:list, or ice:selectOneMenu.

1.8.x Compatibility

  • In ICEfaces 2+, the "Request" scope is the "standard" JSF Request scope, and not the "Extended" Request scope that was the default in ICEfaces 1.x. This change may result in failures for ICEfaces 1.x applications that relied on the Extended Request Scope behavior that are being moved to ICEfaces 2.0. The workaround for this issue is to adopt one of "View", "Window", or "Session" scopes in JSF/ICEfaces 2+ instead.

Mojarra JSF

  • This release includes the Mojarra JSF 2.1.28 runtime libraries.
  • Supported Mojarra JSF libraries are 2.1.3-2.1.6, 2.1.18, 2.1.19, 2.1.21-2.1.28. Other versions have serious known issues and are not recommended.
    Note that Mojarra 2.1.4-2.1.18 included a dependency on Servlet 3.0 APIs, as a result, it should not be used on older JEE5 application servers. Instead, Mojarra 2.1.3, 2.1.19, 2.1.21-2.1.28, or Apache MyFaces 2.1, should be used on JEE5 servers.
  • Mojarra 2.1.15-2.1.23 have a serious regression issue that prevents "partialStateSaving=false" mode from working correctly. Work-arounds are to use "partialStateSaving=true", which is the default, Mojarra 2.1.24+, or MyFaces JSF instead.
  • When running a JSF application in JSF2 PROJECT_STAGE="Development" mode, you may see the follow warning appear at the bottom of the page: "Form component needs to have a UIForm in its ancestry.".
    • This issue is caused by a bug in Mojarra JSF, a suggested work-around is to set the JSF2 PROJECT_STAGE="Production" in the web.xml file.

MyFaces JSF

  • This release includes the MyFaces JSF 2.1.17 runtime libraries.
  • Session State Serialization
    • By default, MyFaces serializes the state of the view into the session on every single request. While this allows the state of the view to be restored for that particular request, it can have an impact on performance as well as components that may not be designed for it. For these reasons we recommend to set the following context parameter in your application: 
       <context-param>
        <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.SERIALIZE_STATE_IN_SESSION</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </context-param>
    • See JIRA for a detailed explanation.

Sample Applications

  • The ICEfaces Showcase sample application (/samples/showcase) is generally compatible with JEE5 spec server environments, with the following exceptions:
    • The ace:dataTable -> Grouping, and ace:tree demos require a minimum EL library version of 2.2, which is generally not present on older EE5 application servers.

Browsers

  • WebKit (Safari and Chrome)
    • The WebKit-based browsers (Google Chrome and Apple Safari) request content-type "application/xhtml+xml" by default, which is different from virtually all other browsers. In cases where the application page doesn't set the contentType explicitly this can result in these browsers defaulting to a strict XHTML rendering mode, which can cause some unexpected styling and layout issues. In order to have WebKit-based browsers render markup consistently with other browsers, you must specify the content-type in the view tag on each page: 
      <f:view contentType="text/html">
    • See http://jira.icesoft.org/browse/ICE-6138 for more information.
  • Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7)
    • The ace:dataTable -> Pinnable columns feature is not supported on IE7.
    • The ace:gmap, and ice:gmap components may experience intermittent JS errors when running on IE7 due to incompatibilities within the Google Maps JavaScript and IE 7 itself.
  • Internet Explorer 7-8 (IE 7, IE 8)
    • The transition effects are not supported on these browsers to maintain performance and reliability.
  • Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11)
    • The icecore:navigationNotifier component is not supported on IE 11. Users who require FF browser support for this feature should consider ICEfaces EE 4.0.
  • Firefox
    • The icecore:navigationNotifier component is not supported on FF browsers. Users who require FF browser support for this feature should consider ICEfaces EE 4.0.

Application Servers

  • Tomcat 6.0
    • In some cases, when running Tomcat on Windows, undeploying an ICEfaces compatible application (i.e. that includes the icefaces-compat.jar) can cause an exception. See http://jira.icesoft.org/browse/ICE-5222 for additional information about this issue. To prevent this, include a context.xml file with your application that includes the following Context attributes to prevent jar and resource locking: 
      <Context antiJarLocking="true" antiResourceLocking="true"/>
  • Glassfish 3 / JBoss 6, 7 (JEE 6 Platforms)
    • It is required to have a supported Mojarra JSF 2.1 runtime installed (see [Supported Platforms]). This may require updating the JSF Mojarra runtime libraries in Glassfish 3 or JBoss 6/7, depending on which JSF version is currently installed.
      Detailed instructions on how to deploy your application along with updated JSF libraries are provided in the ICEfaces EE Wiki [deployment guides].
  • Oracle WebLogic 10.3.0/10.3.1
    • When running on WebLogic 10.3.0 or 10.3.1 with MyFaces JSF, the commons-digester-1.8.jar must be configured in the project. See the [WebLogic+Server+10.3] configuration topic for details.
  • IBM WebSphere 7
    • WAS 7 environments must be patched to at least 7.0.0.19 for use with this release.
    • Due to an incorrect HTTP write-order bug that is present in both the Mojarra (as of 2.1.18) and MyFaces (as of 2.1.10) JSF runtime libraries, the following warning can appear in the logs: 
      W com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.SRTServletResponse setIntHeader SRVE8094W: WARNING: Cannot set header. Response already committed.
    • This warning can be safely ignored and has no functional impact. See JIRA for details and workarounds.
  • RedHat JBoss WildFly 8
    • The EE Composite Components are not supported on JBoss WildFly 8 in this release.
    • When using ICEpush-EE and IE 7 with this server, the following server warning log entries may be generated by the WildFly server. Note that these warnings have impact on the application and can be ignored: 
      WARNING [org.icepush.BlockingConnectionServer] (Monitoring scheduler) Exception caught on org.icepush.BlockingConnectionServer TimerTask.: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Connection reset by peer

Portal Containers

  • PortletFaces Bridge
    • The PortletFaces Bridge is not supported in this release with Mojarra JSF 2.1.19+.
    • The recommended workaround is to use Mojarra 2.1.3-2.1.6, or if possible the Liferay Faces Bridge.
    • http://jira.icesoft.org/browse/IPCK-479
  • Liferay 5, 6
    • Using the ACE Components with Liferay can result in CSS styling conflicts between the Liferay themes and the ACE Component theme, as they both utilize the jQuery ThemeRoller styling scheme. It may be necessary to customize the themes to avoid conflicts when using the ACE components with Liferay 5. See the Custom ACE Styles for Liferay Portal Wiki topic for details.
  • IBM WebSphere Portal 7
    • WAS 7 environments must be patched to at least 7.0.0.19 for use with this release.
    • Due to an incorrect HTTP write-order bug that is present in both the Mojarra (as of 2.1.18) and MyFaces (as of 2.1.10) JSF runtime libraries, the following warning can appear in the logs: 
      W com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.SRTServletResponse setIntHeader SRVE8094W: WARNING: Cannot set header. Response already committed.
      • This warning can be safely ignored and has no functional impact. See JIRA for details.

Sample Applications

  • ICEfaces Showcase
    • The ICEfaces Showcase sample application requires EL version 2.1 (JEE 5) for all demos except the following exception which requires the newer EL 2.2 (JEE 6) version:
      • ace:dataTable -> Grouping
      • This demo will be inoperable on older servers that do not support the EL 2.2 specification. The justification for these demos requiring the newer EL is to demonstrate a much cleaner implementation approach that is only possible by leveraging the newer EL version.
  • ICEfaces Showcase Portlets
    • The ICEfaces Showcase Portlets are intended to be used with a single instance of each demo portlet on the same page at one time. Adding the same demo portlet to the page multiple times will result in component failures.
    • This issue is related to the id-usage and structure of the demo application itself, and is not an inherent limitation of ICEfaces or the components themselves.


3rd Party Libraries

The license and version information for all required/included 3rd Party libraries for this release is available here.


Support

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