Calgary-based ICEsoft is the latest company to join the OpenAjax Alliance, which recently named John Ferraiolo as its day-to-day leader. The rich internet app company's membership increases the total of OpenAjax Alliance members to 35.

"While ICEfaces is fully Java EE compliant and provides significant advantages over Ajax solutions that require JavaScripting, we also must continue to ensure that our solution interoperates fully with other solutions in the industry," said Chris Erickson, CEO of ICEsoft. "The Open Ajax Alliance provides a forum where the leading suppliers of AJAX solutions can work together to ensure the interoperability that our customers require."

ICEfaces is the industry's first Ajax Solution that allows developers to work within the well-understood application development dynamics of Java, and to utilize any industry leading IDE to produce rich Ajax applications. Unlike other solutions, ICEfaces also addresses the critical backend issues of performance and scalability, so that customers can develop, maintain and operate high function, high performance Ajax applications at the lowest possible total cost.

ICEsoft recently announced the availability of ICEfaces Community Edition 1.0., which is offered free of charge for development and deployment.