Voted “Best Commercial Eclipse – based tool” by Eclipse Foundation, BEA Workshop Studio is designed to offer unparalleled support for the development of sophisticated web applications based on Java Server Faces. ICEfaces can help simplify this process by offering an integration that designed to support the development, testing, and deployment of ICEfaces-enabled rich web applications using BEA Workshop Studio’s IDE tool. This can help enable users to design, develop and debug ICEfaces JSF applications using all of BEA Workshop Studio’s AppXRay capabilities: code completion, error checking, validation, and consistency checking as well as its advanced JSP editing.

At deployment time, ICEfaces can help provide significant advantages via its out-of-the-box support for BEA WebLogic Server, including support for clustered server deployments for industrial-strength application scalability and fail-over. ICEfaces can perform asynchronous AJAX Push operations across multiple server nodes in a cluster, providing a robust solution for rich enterprise applications with large-scale deployment requirements. Configuring ICEfaces can be a snap, thanks to its complete documentation for clustered deployments of ICEfaces applications to BEA WebLogic servers.

“ICEfaces has become one of the frameworks of choice for enterprise Java developers looking to create a new generation of rich and responsive AJAX-based applications,” said Ken Fyten, Product Manager for ICEsoft. “It’s clearly a leader with exclusive support for Thin-Client AJAX, AJAX Push, and JavaScript-free development. We think users of BEA Workshop Studio and BEA WebLogic Server will find ICEfaces to be an ideal solution for rapid adoption, development, and deployment of large-scale rich enterprise applications. With ICEfaces, developers can fully leverage their existing Eclipse-based BEA tools, infrastructure, and expertise to rapidly develop a new generation of rich and responsive enterprise applications.”