ICEsoft Technologies and the NetBeans™ Community today announced support of the ICEfaces™ open source Ajax framework in the development and deployment of rich, JavaServer Faces™ (JSF) applications using the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and GlassFish™ application server.

With more than 55,000 ICEfaces developers worldwide and more than 1 million downloads, ICEfaces is the leading open source JSF Ajax frameworks for developing Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications that are rich, robust, secure, and scalable.

ICEfaces extends JSF application support by providing automatic Ajax capabilities while preserving the server-side Java EE programming model thus reducing the need for low-level JavaScript development.

"ICEfaces delivers a comprehensive enterprise-class JavaServer Faces solution that complements Sun's enterprise software infrastructure. The seamless integration of ICEfaces with NetBeans and GlassFish provides developers with a powerful open source Java technology-based solution for the development and deployment of Web 2.0 applications," said Arseniy Kuznetsov, NetBeans Director of Engineering, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

NetBeans is a free, open-source IDE for software developers that provides an exceptional environment for the development of JSF-based applications. Combined with ICEfaces, NetBeans allows web application developers to conform to the standard Java technology design patterns, accessing databases and Web services behind dynamic HTML interfaces.

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