Components Reference

Components Reference

ICEfaces provides render kits for the following JSF component suites.

Name Space

Description

ICEfaces Features

www.icesoft.com/icefaces/component

ICEfaces Component Suite

Direct-to-DOM renderers
Automated partial submit
Automated CSS styling

java.sun.com/jsf/html

Standard JSF Components

Direct-to-DOM renderers

The ICEfaces Component Suite classes and renderers are contained in the icefaces-comps.jar. The Sun Standard JSF Component renderers are contained in the icefaces.jar.

ICEfaces Component Suite

The ICEfaces Component Suite provides a complete set of the most commonly required components. These components feature additional benefits over other JSF component sets, such as:

Optimized to fully leverage ICEfaces Direct-to-DOM rendering technology for seamless incremental UI updates for all components without full-page refreshes.
Support for additional attributes for ICEfaces-specific features, such as partialSubmit, effects, visibleOnUserRole, etc.
Support for comprehensive component styling via predefined component style sheets that are easily customized.

For more details, see ICEfaces Component Suite .

Standard JSF Components

The standard JSF components as defined in the JSF specification are supported with Direct-to-DOM renderers. No additional ICEfaces-specific attributes are associated with the standard JSF component tags. ICEfaces-specific capabilities such as partial submit can be configured into the tag through the standard JavaScript-specific pass through attributes (e.g., onblur="iceSubmitPartial(form.this.event)"). The standard JSF component renderers do not support ICEfaces automated CSS styling.

Name Space	Description	ICEfaces Features
www.icesoft.com/icefaces/component	ICEfaces Component Suite	Direct-to-DOM renderers Automated partial submit Automated CSS styling
java.sun.com/jsf/html	Standard JSF Components	Direct-to-DOM renderers