About This Release
ICEfaces v2.0 Alpha 2 is an early developer milestone for the next-generation of ICEfaces, designed for JSF 2.0.
Notable Changes and Improvements
- New "Window" Scope. This custom scope is designed to fill in a gap in the existing scopes available for JSF 2.0, as it exists for the life of a browser window or tab including surviving reloads and refreshes. There is more information in the Compatibility under Scopes.
- New Push Architecture. The ICEfaces Ajax Push feature has been completely re-implemented using a all-new architecture for improved performance and robustness.
- New Client APIs. New JavaScript APIs have been added for monitoring interesting Events that occur on the client. More details are available in the JavaScript Client API documentation.
- ICEfaces 1.8.2 Component Suite Support. This release provides virtually complete support for an ICEfaces 2.0-compatible version
of the ICEfaces 1.8.2 Component Suite. See the Known Issues and Compatibility sections for more information.
- New Documentation. Documentation for ICEfaces 2.0 is now exclusively available online in this ICEfaces Wiki.
- Maven2 Support. The download bundles include Maven2 .pom files for the ICEfaces libraries and associated ant configuration files to support readily importing the ICEfaces 2.0 Alpha2 libraries into a local Maven2 repository.
