ICEfaces is a fully featured product that enterprise developers can use to develop new or existing Java EE Ajax applications at no cost. There is an open source project and an Enterprise (commercial) software that extends the open source project.

There are numerous benefits of using ICEfaces to enrich enterprise web applications:

Rich User Experience: Create a superior user experience and produce more effective enterprise Java EE Ajax applications.

Open Source: ICEfaces is the most successful enterprise Ajax Java framework available under open source.

Standards-based: ICEfaces is a pure Java enterprise solution so developers can continue to work the way they are use to. Existing Java IDEs and test tools can be leveraged during development.

Easy Ajax: ICEfaces is much more than a component suite it is a Java Ajax application framework that provides ease of development for Java/JSF developers. ICEfaces applications are developed with minimal design effort in Java/JSF not JavaScript.

Ajax Push: ICEfaces pioneeredAjax Push , enabling server/application initiated content rendering to the browser. WithAjax Push , developers can create collaborative and dynamic Java EE Ajax applications like never before. There is simply no easier way to develop JavaAjax Push applications.

Security: ICEfaces EE is the most secure Java EE Ajax solution on the market today. It is compatible with SSL, prevents cross-site scripting, malicious code injections and unauthorized data mining. As a server-based solution, ICEfaces EE doesn’t expose application logic or user data, plus it is especially effective at preventing fake form submissions and SQL injections attacks.

Project Home page:

http://www.icefaces.org

After looking in several posts and blogs and aiming us to display them in the css file (why we would not do it?) I found an interesting post about Velocity objects.

And now the is an application:

<a href=”#”><img src=”$themeDisplay.getPathThemeImages()/theme/logo.gif” alt=”Logo”></a>

In the “Theme” scenario, we have the “$themeDisplay” variable. We can get the name of the css class, its folder path, the logo name, …

All these variables are in the “init.vm” file in :

{your root\liferay-portal-5.2.3\tomcat-6.0.18\webapps\ROOT\html\themes\_unstyled\templates