If there is a theme to the ICEfaces 1.8 release, it is one of "refinement". Don't worry, there are a bunch of new features too in the over 350 fixes and enhancements included in the release, but a lot of development time was spent looking at how we could make ICEfaces better, easier, and more robust than ever before. In that regard, we've made some progress:
Richer & More Productive
* All new confirmationPanel, dataExporter, and setEventPhase components.
* Improved focus management via ice
utputBody value-binding.
* Time entry is now supported by the selectInputDate component.
* Keyboard and double-click support has been added to the rowSelector.
* Popup components (menuBar, menuPopup, panelTooltip, selectInputDate) can now automatically position themselves to avoid displaying off the visible window.
* The Input File component is now much easier to use, supports progress updates - even in synchronous mode.
Easy Robust Ajax Push
* The new SessionRenderer API provides the simplest way to implement compelling Ajax Push features in any framework, and it's built on top of ICEfaces industry-leading push architecture.
* The unique new Push Server provides a zero-configuration solution for deploying multiple asynchronous applications to the same server.
* ICEfaces now supports deployment into clustered fail-over configurations for applications with high-availability requirements.
* No other Ajax Push solution can approach this level of robustness, scalability, and ease-of use.
Faster & Leaner
* Rendering performance has been improved up to 30%.
* Java heap consumption has been reduced 30-50%.
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