#Icefaces 2016 showcase how to#
#Icefaces 2016 showcase update#

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 showcase 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 showcase 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.