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Hi,

I am trying to add a composite component to an existing icefaces application. I have downloaded and built composite-components.jar from ICEfacesEE-1.8.2.GA_P01-bin and the icefaces version in the existing application is 2.0-A3. The jar is copied to application lib and the entry in my xhtml is

<ice:panelGroup>
<ice-cc:triStateCheckbox id="uniqueId" bean="#{myBean}" />
</ice:panelGroup>

I have this namespace on the top of my page
xmlns:ice-cc="http://www.icesoft.com/icefaces-composite-comps

Pretty st forward stuff. However, every time the page comes up, all the existing components show up but instead of this comp component, it throws this exception.

Unhandled Application Error
javax.faces.view.facelets.TagException: /file:/C:/XXX_RI/target/XXX_RI-1.0-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/lib/composite-components-1.0.0.jar!/META-INF/facelet/util/_requiredAttributes.xhtml @24,53 <ice-cc:_requiredAttributeHandler> Tag Library supports namespace: http://www.icesoft.com/icefaces-composite-comps, but no tag was defined for name: _requiredAttributeHandler

Great if there are any pointers on whats' going wrong here.

thanks and regards

sree

Hi Sree,

I don't believe the composite component have been tested to be run with ICEfaces 2.0. We have only tested these components with ICEfaces EE 1.8.2.

Have you tried to use this component with a project that uses the ICEfaces EE 1.8.2 jars?

Regards,
Arran

Thanks, Arran. I guess i'll have to wait for the 2.0 EE to come out. I'll run a small test to check the incompatibility.

regards

sree

Hi Sree,

I am currently hitting these problems and am relieved to see someone else saying that they are saying the same thing!

How did you get on with this? Is it the case that if you want to use the composite components (i.e. EE) then you need to use ICEfaces 2.0? This would be fine but annoying to be honest since we are starting a brand new project just now and it looks like in a month to 6 weeks time this could all be out of date.

Thanks,

Neil

Hi Kyle,

Composite components do not work with iceFaces 2.0. We are waiting for the next release which might have a component suite. There are serious deficiancies in 2.0 Alpha to be used for production purposes as you lack the convenience of custom components and also you can't port the existing code over. There are components like a file uploader, which is simply not available in Alpha.

Having said that, I think it'll be a good idea to watchout for the next release. The roadmap looks good and there is a promise of a componant suite which we can hopefully use.