ICEfaces – Quick Review

Firstly I would like to thank the comments especially from Paul Toker and Brad Kroeger from ICESoft for their commentry, particularly around creating a ICEfaces Facelets Project as compared to a ICEfaces Project.

The Advantage of this is that it allows you to work with xhtml as opposed to jspx. If you would like to read my previous ICEfaces post have a look here:

http://liyaqatm.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/icefaces-quick-review

Review

Thus far we have done the following:

• Brief ICEfaces introduction
• Setup our Eclipse environment
• Completed a sample ICEfaces tutorial

Being a Java developer for a few years I have briefly touched various technologies such as EJB’s, SWING, GWT, MyGWT (please note they might not all be related ) and after completing my first tutorial this technology felt very similar (kinda) to a recruitement home page i created using Velocity.
Just one minute, I know some guys will be saying what the heck am I on about, am I crazy? Well the similarities I draw from Velocity and this is the ability to inject beans into my front end and use them (with Velocity the objects seemed more at my disposal though)

This will be a short post as I just wanted to jott down my thoughts on what I have learnt thus far and what are the actual benefits I see (could be quite premature, actually is very premature to say) but  just my ideas on what it all involves.

Potential Advantages

• Quick creation of XHTML front ends
• Ability to link these front-ends to Java
• AJAX Push Updates
• Usage of well defined widgets
• Large Community with enough support

There are other advantages but the few mentioned above are just those that came to mind at this point.  Have a look at the ICEfaces website: www.icefaces.org and if you not registered register and have a look at their samples.  They occasionally lack some detail but once you get a few working you will be able to go through the others quite quickly.

Thats my thoughts for now, what I plan on doing is going through some more tutorials and will be sure to let you know how that goes.

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