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Re: Woodstock and ICEfaces integration

From: Federico Vela <fvela_at_paysett.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:52:37 -0500

I've had good experiences with FCKEditor which behaves like a normal
html textarea.

Federico Vela



Ken Paulsen wrote:
>
> Scales has a rich text editor... you could give that one a try. I
> know Jason Lee (Scales lead) is good at responding to any problems /
> questions.
>
> https://scales.dev.java.net
>
> Good luck,
>
> Ken Paulsen
> https://jsftemplating.dev.java.net
>
> Felipe Jaekel wrote:
>> Ok
>>
>> Is it possible to integrate Woodstock with another component library,
>> like RichFaces for example?
>>
>> I need a rich text input component. I've tried jMaki Yahoo's editor,
>> but its complicated to get value from the component and the Yahoo CSS
>> messed up Woodstock CSS (big fonts).
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Felipe
>>
>> 2008/9/8 Alex Sherwin <alex.sherwin_at_acadiasoft.com
>> <mailto:alex.sherwin_at_acadiasoft.com>>
>>
>> It's very unlikely that you will be able to use ICEFaces
>> components in a Woodstock WAR. ICEFaces uses different impl
>> classes for the standard JSF lifecycle, because they've
>> drastically modified the implementation of it. It no longer uses
>> the same full GET/POST submit to a Servlet back-end, they've
>> instead created a AJAX "bridge" that basically intercepts a form
>> submit, and rather then submitting it normally, it submits it via
>> an async xmlhttprequest, which gets back DOM updates from the
>> back end in JSON format, and then are applied to the current DOM
>> via the AJAX bridge.
>>
>>
>>
>> It may be possible to setup a project to include pages that use
>> only Woodstock, or pages that use only icefaces, but I highly
>> doubt you will be able to mix/match on a single page. If this
>> were to work, you would need to setup the ICEFaces persistent
>> Servlet and have it mapped to a context that Woodstock would not
>> recognizes (i.e. /faces/* for Woodstock Servlet, /ifaces/* for
>> ICEFaces Servlet, etc).
>>
>>
>>
>> Your best bet is to read the ICEFaces developer guide to better
>> understand how their implementation works
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Alex Sherwin
>>
>> alex.sherwin_at_acadiasoft.com <mailto:alex.sherwin_at_acadiasoft.com>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Felipe Jaekel [mailto:fkjaekel_at_gmail.com
>> <mailto:fkjaekel_at_gmail.com>]
>> *Sent:* Monday, September 08, 2008 8:00 AM
>> *To:* users_at_woodstock.dev.java.net
>> <mailto:users_at_woodstock.dev.java.net>
>> *Subject:* Woodstock and ICEfaces integration
>>
>>
>>
>> I use Woodstock as main component library. I'd like to use at my
>> pages some components from ICEFaces that it doesn't have.
>>
>> I've installed the ICEfaces plugin at NetBeans put it simply
>> doesn't work when I mix their components.
>>
>> What JARs I need and what has to be configured at web xml and
>> faces-config.xml?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Felipe
>>
>>
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