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JBoss RichFaces 3.1: Ajax4JSF and Exadel RichFaces integrated as single open source library
JBoss, a division of RedHat, recently released version 3.1 of the RichFaces JSF library. Stemming from a partnership with Exadel, this release is the first one to integrate the Ajax4JSF project with the formerly commercial RichFaces. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about RichFaces and what this release brings to the JSF space.
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RSF released with support for DWR-style Ajax
The Reasonable Server Faces (RSF) project recently released version 0.7.2. RSF is a web framework based on Spring and covering much of the same ground as JSF. RSF advocates zero server state designs.
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HDIV 2.0: Security framework now integrates with Spring MVC and JSTL
HDIV, an open-source web application security framework, recently released version 2.0. InfoQ spoke with HDIV project lead Roberto Velasco Sarasola to learn more about this release.
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Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0: Now with JPA and JSF tools
As part of the Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) release two months ago, Version 2.0 of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) was released. InfoQ spoke with WTP co-lead Jess Garms to learn more about this release and about WTP in general.
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Gavin King's Second Wishlist for Java EE 6: JSF and EL Enhancements
Gavin King, Hibernate creator and Seam project lead, has posted the second and third parts to his wishlist for Java EE 6. In these installments he focuses on enhancements for JSF and Unified EL.
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A Wicket User Revisits JSF
Peter Thomas recently took a second look at JSF after developing most recently with Wicket. Thomas uses the creation of a simple discussion forum for his comparison showing various portions of each implementation side by side including web.xml, dependencies, and business/presentation components.
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Oracle JDeveloper 11g Preview and over 80 AJAX-enabled Open Source JSF Components Released
Oracle has released a technology preview version of its JDeveloper 11g IDE along with over 80 freely-available AJAX-enabled JSF components, bolstering its visual development capabilities with improved support for rich-client interfaces, live database connectivity, data binding, and more.
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Four Ways to Ajax Enable a Java EE Application
Sun's Developer Network posted a series of four articles late last year on different ways to add Ajax to a Java EE application. Each article covers a different way of adding in Ajax, including do-it-yourself, using Dojo, JSF components, and JSF phase listeners.
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Reasons to choose Wicket over JSF and Spring MVC
A recent post to the Wicket mailing list details some reasons to choose Wicket over Spring MVC or JSF. Wicket is a component based web application framework.
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InfoQ Article: An Introduction to JBoss Seam 1.1
JBoss Seam is a new full-stack web application framework that unifies and integrates Ajax, JSF, EJB2, Portlets, and BPM. Seam 1.1 released last week, and InfoQ has published an introduction to Seam, explaining what Seam can do with a HelloWorld example.
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JBoss Seam 1.1 Indepth: An Interview with Gavin King
Seam 1.1 CR1 has just released, with the full GA coming within a couple of weeks. Major new changes include the ability to run SEAM without EJB making it useable in any appserver and even Tomcat, a new concurrency model, ICEFaces/Ajax4JSF integration, and Rails-like code generation/command line tools. InfoQ spoke to Seam creator Gavin King about the release.
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ICEFaces Ajax/JSF Framework Open Sourced Under MPL
ICEsoft Technologies, Inc. has announced that their ICEFaces Ajax Development Platform is now available under the Mozilla Public License. This release also includes tighter IDE integration and enhanced JBoss Seam support.
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G4jsf - Integrating GWT and JSF
JavaServer Faces provides a general framework for web applications. Google's GWT toolkit also provides structure for web applications on both the client and server tiers. A new article on TheServerSide highlighting the G4jsf project shows how the technologies can be complementary instead of competitive.
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Ajax for JSF: ICEFaces Enterprise Edition 1.0
ICEsoft has released version 1.0 of ICEFaces Enterprise Edition. ICEFaces extends JavaServer Faces (JSF) allowing developers to write AJAX style web applications in pure Java without having to use Javascript. ICEFaces provides an Ajax Push technology that allows server changes to be "pushed" to browser based clients without traditional polling techniques.
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AJAX, JPA, and JSF Articles Added to Java BluePrints Catalog
The Java BluePrints Catalog available on Java.net has been updated with new writeups on JSF, AJAX, and JavaEE 5 Persistence.