Today, I'm please to announce a technical preview of Ajax-enabled JSF tooling for
Workshop. The new feature offers a WTP project facet, smart editing, and visual page construction, for
ICEfaces®. ICEfaces is a library of Ajax-enabled JSF tags, distributed under a number of
open source licenses (Apache 2.0 and the Mozilla Public License among them), that will run
under either the Sun RI or Apache MyFaces implementation of JSF -- see the description of the product
here.
The ICEfaces tooling feature is an extension of the award-winning JSF tools already shipping in Workshop.
It's fully AppXRay enabled, which provides edit-time error detection, Smart Editor assistance with tag attributes,
and smart navigation between markup, JSF configuration files, and Java types -- all the familiar capabilities
that Workshop JSF tooling offers can now be used to help develop an Ajax web application.
The ICEfaces extension was developed by Tom Stamm, an engineer on the Workshop team, who has published
a tutorial about it here.
You can obtain the feature at http://dev2dev.bea.com/eclipse/icefaces-tooling/; it's an Eclipse update that
installs on top of our recently released
Workshop 10.1.
The tech preview period will run from now through September 2007.
Please try it out, and post feedback and questions to the
Workshop Tech Preview forum.
We're anxious to hear from you!
