What's New in ICEfaces 1.7?

This release of ICEfaces provides over 465+ powerful new features, enhancements and fixes such as:

ICEfaces Component Suite

• New Component Showcase
• Separate JSP and Facelets versions (for ease of code-comprehension)
• New theme
• Try out the newICEfaces Component Showcase
• New Popup/Context Menu
• New Portlet Component
• New Rich Text Editor
• Leverages the industry-leading FCKeditor JavaScript library
• New Media Player Component supports following media content in ICEfaces page:
• Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media, and RealPlayer
• New Popup/Tooltip Panel
• New Divider Panel (Split Pane)
• Improved Drag & Drop Performance and Scalability
• XHTML Compliance
• Numerous other enhancements to DataTable and other components

Framework & Bridge Enhancements

• Improved Asynchronous connection management and robustness
• Improved performance
• Reduced memory consumption
• Integration with Application Server Asynchronous Request Processing (ARP) APIs:
• Glassfish v2 UR1
• ICEfaces Asynchronous HTTP Server (AHS)
• Jetty 6.1
• Tomcat 6 and JBoss 4.2

Async HTTP Server (AHS) for Ajax Push:

• AHS is now included in the core ICEfaces distribution
• Runs as a servlet as well
• Supports multiple asynchronous ICEfaces portlets deployed from different WAR files
• Configurable as a server for additional scalability and robustness for asynchronous ICEfaces applications

Portlet Support:

• ICEfaces now supports the following portal containers:
• Liferay Portal
• BEA WebLogic Portal
• JBoss Portal
• Apache Pluto
• JetSpeed 2
• Support for JSR-168 Portlets
• New portlet sample applications and more

Improved Support for 3rd Party Frameworks

• Spring Framework Support:
• Improved support for using ICEfaces with Spring and Spring Web Flow
• JBoss Seam
• Enhanced Seam Component Showcase project

Improved Documentation

For more information on ICEfaces 1.7, see theRelease Notes .

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