Infragistics NetAdvantage for JSF - Summary

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Summary

Infragistics NetAdvantage for JSF by Infragistics

Add tree, grid, menu, tab and input controls to your JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications. NetAdvantage for JSF is a set of rich, easily-styled AJAX Web UI components. The components include tree, grid, menu, tab, and numerous input controls. The core of the framework is AJAX-enabled and UI element-based for styling simplicity. You can quickly and easily deliver a polished, professional look and feel your users expect. Use the built-in UI styles simply by instantiating the components in your Web applications. The components deliver high performance and seamless data transfers to and from your end users. Leveraging AJAX technology with the convenience of effortless application styling, the collection of JavaServer Faces (JSF) components included with NetAdvantage for JSF ensures a great user experience.

NetAdvantage for JSF Key Features:

AJAX Integration:No code AJAX: AJAX is transparently integrated into NetAdvantage to allow code-free component updates without a full page submission. (This means developers don’t need to know how to code AJAX, it’s turned on by default.) This integration also enables NetAdvantage to “play well” with other products that follow the AJAX specifications.

Input Components: NetAdvantage’s input components extend those available in the JSF core tag libraries. We include a calendar, several numeric types, email and regular expression entry.

Trees: Tree structures can be tedious to code, NetAdvantage provides a bean-driven component which removes any need for dealing with the details of correctly rendering a tree in HTML.

2D and 3D Charting: NetAdvantage creates 2D and 3D charts in real time.

Web Styling: A single entry in the web.xml file controls all styling across your application. NetAdvantage ships with over a dozen attractive styles, each of which is modifiable to your application’s needs.

Data Binding: Data is bound to NetAdvantage components via standard JSF Expression Language statements. This means that your components can be bound to any Java Bean that’s been placed in the application, whether the bean is managed by Java Server Faces or not.

Plug-in for IBM’s RAD 7: NetAdvantage is integrated with RAD 7 as a plug-in.

Plug-in for Net Beans: NetAdvantage is integrated with NetBeans as a plug-in.

NetAdvantage for JSF Product Hightlights:

Optimized for high-performance Web applications

Smart-Refresh technology seamlessly performs AJAX requests behind the scenes and eliminates Web page refresh

Smart detection of client browser capabilities to send AJAX requests

Smart-Data-Binding and Smart-Paging technologies automatically handles large amounts of data

Built-in state management keeps the client and server in sync, between user interaction with UI components and AJAX calls

UI-element architecture provides granular control over styling the surface of all JSF components

Built-in multi-language and translation

Accessibility support (Section 508)

Supports visual and declarative programming of Components

NetAdvantage for JSF Application Server Support

NetAdvantage for JSF 2008 should run on any J2EE compliant application server and has been tested on all the major application servers including BEA Weblogic™, IBM WebSphere®, JBoss®, Apache Tomcat, Sun ONE

NetAdvantage for JSF IDE Support

Support for Eclipse and Design time support for NetBeans 5.5 and IBM RAD.

NetAdvantage for JSF Browser Support

IE 6.0 and later, Firefox 1.5 and later, Netscape 7.0 and later, Safari 2.0 and later.

Components Included:

WebTree performs very much like a desktop tree component. Eliminate postbacks, reduce network traffic and deliver top-notch performance – all as a result of the Smart Refresh technology built into the core of WebTree. Your users may not realize they are using a Web application.

Be Ready to Handle Large Amounts of Data - As with WebGrid, WebTree has also been designed from the ground up to efficiently handle large amounts of data found in many data-driven Web-based applications. It's fueled with Smart Refresh and Smart Data Binding. The built-in AJAX engine makes WebTree a highly scalable, high-performance tree component.

Automatic Paging - AJAX-Enabled - WebTree automatically displays and handles the First, Previous, Next, and Last buttons. Simply set one property to specify the number of tree nodes you want your users to page through in a click, and WebTree does the work. For additional programming convenience, the pager will automatically display if the tree has more nodes than is specified in the page size. Furthermore, it leverages Smart Refresh technology (automatically performs AJAX requests behind the scenes), eliminating postbacks, reducing network traffic and delivering high-performance Web pages.

Fully-Customizable Look and Feel - Quickly and easily apply a polished, professional appearance to your application. Choose from the selection of professionally designed, built-in styles, or you can further customize the look you want down to every detail. WebTree allows you to easily style the tree itself, tree nodes (default, hover, and selected nodes), or you can individually style nodes at the node level. Icons can be displayed and/or overridden for the collapsed and expanded node states.

Section 508 Accessibility - Built-in full keyboard support, so your applications can satisfy the requirements of Section 508 quickly and easily.

WebGrid is a highly functional, AJAX-enabled table that allows you to display your data in the style and manner that best fits your needs. WebGrid provides the following funtionality:

Automatic Sorting - Built-in automatic sorting in WebGrid simplifies your work - just set a flag to tell WebGrid if you want to sort on a column and you’re done. WebGrid automatically sends AJAX requests based upon the capabilities of the client browser for a rich, responsive user experience.

High Performance - WebGrid has been designed from the ground up to handle the load of your most demanding data-driven Web-based applications. It's fueled with Smart Refresh and Smart Data Binding, making it a highly scalable and high-performance grid component.

Fully Customizable Look and Feel - You can customize the look you want down to every detail because WebGrid is built on the AJAX-and UIElement based framework. A UI element is any granular element of the WebGrid component, such as a row, column, hover, select column, etc. Every UIElement can be styled with your CSS styles, or you can choose from the many styles included.

Bound and Unbound Mode - Based on a Model Viewer Controller architecture, WebGrid (and all of the bound components) supports binding to a JSF DataModel, and can therefore be bound to Java arrays, Java Lists, ResultSets or JavaBeans. Simply set WebGrid for bound or unbound data rendering.

WebMenu supports features such as checkmarks, grouped menu items, a rich object model and much more, to allow you to design the most advanced navigation systems.

Fully Customizable Look and Feel - You can customize the look you want down to every detail. WebMenu provides you with easy access to style each element, such as a menu, menu item (default and hover appearance), etc.

Bound and Unbound Mode - Based on a Model Viewer Controller architecture, WebMenu (and all of the bound components) supports binding to a JSF DataModel, and can therefore be bound to Java arrays, Java Lists, ResultSets or JavaBeans. Simply set WebMenu for bound or unbound data rendering.

Section 508 Accessibility - Built-in full keyboard support, so your applications can satisfy the requirements of Section 508 quickly and easily.

WebTab leverages Smart Refresh technology (automatically performs AJAX requests behind the scenes), eliminating postbacks, reducing network traffic and delivering high performance Web pages. Transparently and automatically end AJAX requests to fetch TabItems on demand.

Fully Customizable Look and Feel - Choose to apply a professionally designed style provided with WebTab to create the appearance of your application quickly, or you can further customize the look you want down to every detail. WebTab provides you with easy access to style the TabView, TabItems, and Hover or Selected TabItems.

Nested TabView - WebTab fully supports a nested TabView, providing the capability to display tabs within tabs, for the most complex configurations your application may require.

Scrollable TabItems - Easily and automatically display scrollbars in your TabItems.

WebInput is a versatile component, providing many components rolled into one.

WebInput consists of the following components:

CheckBox

CheckboxList

DropdownList

DateChooser

InputEmail

InputNumber

InputRegularExpression

RadioButton

RadioButtonList

The WebInput component allows you to easily add custom validation and display logic to ensure the data entered is correct and in the right format. It includes DateChooser - completely localized, Min/Max dates, full keyboard support and much more.

What's new in Infragistics NetAdvantage for JSF 2008 Volume 2?

WebDropDown– A new AJAX-enabled component which allows type-ahead data entry so that as the user types data into an editable text field, a list of possible completions appears as a value list beneath the text field. This makes for a highly intuitive data entry experience for your end users

Aggregate Functions in WebGrid Column Footers – Fulfill your users’ need for a spreadsheet-style data display which shows calculations such as sum, average, count, minimum and maximum. Built-in to the WebGrid is support for calculating these aggregate functions from the underlying column data in the grid’s column footers

Cell Activation in WebGrid - Now users can give “focus” to single cells within the WebGrid, and move that focus around with various keyboard keys

Integration with standards and popular frameworks – As part of the Java Community, Infragistics knows what’s going on and are responsive to changes in the Java market. All of their components now support the JavaServer Faces 1.2 standard

What’s new in Infragistics NetAdvantage for JSF 2008 Volume 1?

AJAXSupport in Leading Portal Environments – NEW: All AJAX features such as SmartRefresh and AJAX load-on-demand scrolling are fully supported within Portals, which normally pose a stumbling block to the use of high-performance AJAX functionality. Major portals supported with only a minimal configuration file change include IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and JBoss.

Web Dialog Window – NEW: New WebDialogWindow component replicates the look and feel of rich, desktop-style dialog windows such as maximize, minimize and restore. It bypasses the pop-up blocker functionality of modern browsers allowing it to work portably across environments.

Interactive Data Table – NEW Enhancements: Our master/detail data table, the WebGrid now features AJAX load-on-demand scrolling, fixed column push-pins, improved in-cell editing and multi-column sorting, in addition to its already world-beating feature set.

What’s new in Infragistics NetAdvantage for JSF 2007 Volume 2?

Grid - The hierarchical grid now features vertical scrollbars, column resizing, and stationary headers

Design time IDE Support - Support for NetBeans and IBM RAD along with pre-built styles allow developers to rapidly build and style incredibly rich Web 2.0 applications in J2EE environments. Note: NetAdvantage for JSF is certified Ready for Rational by IBM

Reference Application - The online samples browser will be enhanced by the addition of an Executive Dashboard sample application featuring the JSF controls, including the application source code

What's new in NetAdvantage in JSF 2007 Volume 1?

New WebChart Component - Present your data visually with our new WebChart component that can create incredibly rich 2D and 3D charts. All the most commonly used charts are provided, eliminating the need for a separate chart package

Grid Export - Easily share data with other applications by exporting data from the grid to a standard CSV file

Portal Support - Better portal support for JBoss Portal, Liferay, and WebSphere portal

What's new in NetAdvantage in JSF 2006 Volume 2?

Simplify Complex Data - New hierarchical grid easily organizes and displays data in nested grids

Maintain Readability - Fixed columns keep column data in view while your users scroll

Built-in Convenience - Easily export grid data to a standard CSV file

Great User Experience - APIs allow interactive experiences on the web

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Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Solaris 9, Linux Kernel V2.6.x, Linux Kernel V2.4.x

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: JavaServer Faces (JSF), AJAX

Application Servers: Oracle WebLogic Server 9.0 (formerly BEA), Oracle WebLogic Server 8.1 (formerly BEA), Oracle WebLogic Server 7.0 (formerly BEA), IBM WebSphere (TM) Application Server 5.0, JBoss (TM) 3.0.x, Sun ONE Application Server 7.0, Jakarta Tomcat

Compatible Containers: NetBeans, WebLogic Workshop, IBM WebSphere Studio, Eclipse V3.3, Eclipse V3.1.2, Eclipse V3.0

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