ICEfaces™ Component Suite Overview

Introduction to the ICEfaces Component Suite
Component Inventory

Introduction to the ICEfaces Component Suite

The ICEfaces Component Suite provides a complete set of enhanced standard and custom JSF components. These components provide additional benefits over other JSF components, such as:

Optimized to fully leverage ICEfaces Direct-to-DOM rendering technology (partial page rendering).
Support for additional attributes for ICEfaces-specific features such as partialSubmit, visibleOnUserRole, etc.
Support for comprehensive component look-and-feel customization via predefined CSS-based component themes.

Using the ICEfaces Component Suite, complete JSF applications may be developed that fully leverage the rich application features that ICEfaces provides:

Smooth, incremental page updates with in-place editing and no full-page refresh.
User context preservation during page update, including scrollbar positioning and user focus.
Asynchronous page updates driven from the application in real time.
Fine-grained user interaction during form entry that augments the standard submit/response loop.

Component Inventory

Component Name	Description	Image
ice:commandButton	A button component.
ice:commandLink	A link-button component (a button component that renders as a clickable link)
ice:commandSortHeader	Used in conjunction with a dataTable. Renders a clickable column header facet allowing the user to toggle the sort order of data in the table, either ascending or descending based on the values in the column.
ice:dataTable	Provides a tabular view of a UIData structure. Supports table Header and Footer facets, embedded column components, which in turn may contain column header, footer, and commandSortHeader facets. Can also optionally be used with a dataPaginator to provide a paged table view.
ice:column	Represents a single column of data within a parent UIData component (dataTable).	No Image
ice:form	A form component.	No Image
ice:graphicImage	An image component.	No Image
ice:inputFile	A file-upload component. Enables user-specified file uploading.
ice:inputHidden	A hidden text entry text-field component.	No Image
ice:inputSecret	A password entry text-field component.
ice:inputText	A text-field component.
ice:inputTextArea	A text-area component.
ice:message	Renders a single message for a specific component.	No Image
ice:messages	Renders all messages.	No Image
ice:outputFormat	Renders parameterized text.	No Image
ice:outputLabel	A label component for a specific element.	No Image
ice:outputLink	An HTML anchor component.	No Image
ice:outputProgress	Renders a progress bar indicating the completion percentage for a task.
ice:outputText	Renders styled or unstyled text.	No Image
ice:panelBorder	A layout container component that arranges and resizes specified child containers to fit in five regions: north, south, east, west, and center.	No Image
ice:panelGrid	A layout container component that arranges specified child containers into a specified grid of columns and rows.	No Image
ice:panelGroup	A layout container component intended for use in situations when only one UIComponent child can be nested, such as in the case of facets.	No Image
ice:panelStack	A container component that itself contains multiple panel groups. A single contained panel group is visible at one time, filling the area covered by the panelStack component.	No Image
ice:panelTabSet	A container component which itself contains one or more panelTab components, which are also container components. The panelTabSet component displays the "active" panelTab, hiding the contents of the others.
ice:panelTab	Renders an individual Panel Tab. Must be contained within a TabbedPane.	No Image
ice:selectBooleanCheckbox	A checkbox component.
ice:selectInputDate	Renders a localized calendar. Users may select a date by clicking on a date in the displayed month. The displayed month and year can be changed using arrow buttons. Optionally, may be used in popup mode. In this mode, an inputText component is rendered that displays the selected date. Users may enter a date directly into the inputText component, or optionally click a button beside the inputText component to display a popup calendar view.
ice:selectManyCheckbox	Renders a set of checkboxes.
ice:selectManyListbox	A multiple-select listbox component.
ice:selectManyMenu	A multiple-select drop-down list component.	No Image
ice:selectOneListbox	A single-select listbox component.
ice:selectOneMenu	A single-select drop-down list component.
ice:selectOneRadio	Renders a set of radiobutton components, only one of which can be selected at one time.
ice:dataPaginator	Used in conjunction with a dataTable. May be used to render a set of page navigation facets and access attributes of the underlying DataModel specified in the associated dataTable. Using the dataPaginator, a dataTable containing a large DataModel can be viewed as multiple "pages" of table rows instead of as one large table.
ice:tree	Renders hierarchical data as a "tree" of branches and leaf nodes (treeNodes). Optionally, may also display navigation controls for the dynamic expansion and collapse of branch nodes. Nodes may also support an action event when clicked that can be used to respond to user click events.
ice:treeNode	Renders a treenode component. Must be added to a tree component.	No Image

ICEfaces™ Component Suite Overview

Contents

Introduction to the ICEfaces Component Suite

Component Inventory

Component Name

Description

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