The ICEfaces Book - An Introduction

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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Rainer EschenIT-Business Architect

The ICEfaces BookAn Introduction

November 8, 2009

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What is ICEfaces?

The best JSF and AJAXglue on the planet.

JEE

AJAX Push

Web 2.0

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Why talk about ICEfaces?

Ask your Javadevelopers about theannoying things of theircurrent frontenddevelopment.

Maintenance

Time to market

Integration

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How to start with ICEfaces?Visit your preferred bookstore.

Packt

...

Amazon

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Why read this book?

You get a compact andeasy to use introductionbased on the experiencesof mission-critical JEEprojects.

Spring

Flex

Facelets

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We have ten chaptersfull of interesting ICEfacesand Facelets information,and code examplesready to use forproduction:

Some highlights of the ICEfaces book?

Desktop-likepresentation

ExtendableReusable

SkinnableMultilingual

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Chapter 1 – Next Generation JavaDevelopment

This chapter gives a shortintroduction of modernJEE web development. It shows why we use AJAXand JSF today, and whyICEfaces is an idealframework to use.

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Chapter 2 – Development Environment

This chapter helps you to set up tools andframeworks that are usedto create and execute thesample code. We willhave a look at Sun JDK,Eclipse (incl. ICEfacesplugin), Maven 2, Jetty, and MySQL in a Windows XP environment.

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Chapter 3 – User Interface Design

The chapter takes a look at what a desktop-like presentation means to modern web applications. We will havea look at the designprinciples and startwith a common pagelayout based on theFacelets templating.

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Chapter 4 – Components forNavigation & Layout

This chapter presents the ICEfaces components that help us toimplement an intuitivenavigation. The layoutideas from the previouschapter are furtherdeveloped using theICEfaces components.

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Tabbed Panel

Collapsible Panel

Popup Menu

Pulldown Menu

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Chapter 5 – Components forFeedback & Behavior

This chapter shows how your web application providesfeedback to users. You willuse Facelets componentslike a desktop developer.We also have a look atICEfaces components thatdeliver a desktop-likebehavior by default.

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Drag'n'Drop

QuestionDialog

MessageDialog

ErrorDialog Tooltip

Autocomplete

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Chapter 6 – Components for Data Presentation & Multimedia

This chapter discusses data presentation components. We will focuson dynamic data tables thatare sortable and resizable.We also have a look atGoogle Maps, videos, andFlash animations.

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Chart

Tree

Dynamic Data Table

Google Map

MediaPlayer

(Video) MediaPlayer(Flash)

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Chapter 7 – Components for DataCreation & Selection

This chapter describes the partial submit concept to update forms onthe fly. We also take alook at dialog-basedvalidation and advancedform elements, such ascalendars and rich texteditors.

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Validation Dialog Calendar

Rich Text Editor

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Chapter 8 – User InterfaceCustomization

This chapter offers a model on how to implement the idea of usersettings with the help ofICEfaces. We will takea deeper look at thelanguage and skinmanagement.

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StandardSettings

ICEsaurian skin, German language

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Chapter 9 – Reusable FaceletsComponents

We will discuss some fundamental design principles, we used in theprevious chapters, thathelp to create reusableand maintainablecomponents withoutever writing JSF customcomponents from scratch.

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Chapter 10 – Push Technology

This chapter discusses the principle of AJAX-based push technology and shows how easily it can be usedwith ICEfaces. For youramusement, we willimplement the multiuserICEmapper game, whichuses Google Maps forthe presentation.

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ProgressDialog

ICEmapperGame

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ICEcube Code Examples

A full-blown, desktop-like web applicationthat looks like acomponent showcase.

icecube-on-icefusion.googlecode.com

AppFuse

ApacheLicense 2.0

FaceletsComponents

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ICEfusion Framework

An advanced set ofFacelets componentsTo write desktop-likeweb applications.

icefusion.googlecode.com

AppFuse

ApacheLicense 2.0

FaceletsComponents

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Ted Goddard, ICEfaces Architect

“The book is as much about ICEfusion, a set of model classes and Facelet components built on ICEfaces, as it is about ICEfaces itself. Developing a framework that embodies the lessons of a book can be a very effective (and testable) way to communicate. Many thanks to Rainer for this great contribution to the ICEfaces community.”

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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Rainer EschenIT-Business Architect

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