EntityQuery is not compatible with IceFaces

[andrewstoev]

CONFIGURATION:
JBoss-4.0.5.GA
Seam 1.1.0.GA
ICEfaces-1.5.1
MyFaces 1.1.4

SUMMARY:
It seems there is a bug using data pagination functionality of EntityQuery component with IceFaces.

BUG EFFECTS:
1) The page parameter firstResult doesn't bind correctly to the EntityQuery component. Like a result when the next button has been pressed, is shown only the first data page. But firstResult appears in the address with its correct value>0.

2) The methods like previousExists and nextExists don't work correctly before rendering phase of s:link component. Therefore all buttons are visible. But they are supposed to be not, because they are set through attribute "rendered".

3) No errors in the log of server.

4) Everything works perfectly if I remove IceFaces from the project.

MORE DETAILS:

My starting point was ContactList example. Trying to find out the root of the bug I simplified it to this:

search.xhtml

<h:form>
 <h:dataTable value="#{contacts.resultList}" var="contact">
 <h:column>
 <f:facet name="header">column</f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="#{contact.firstName} #{contact.lastName}" />
 </h:column>
 </h:dataTable>

 <!-- pagination control -->
 <s:link rendered="#{contacts.previousExists}" value="< previous Page">
 <f:param name="firstResult" value="#{contacts.previousFirstResult}"/>
 </s:link>

 <s:link rendered="#{contacts.nextExists}" value="next Page >">
 <f:param name="firstResult" value="#{contacts.nextFirstResult}"/>
 </s:link>
</h:form>

search.page.xml

<page>
 <param name="firstResult" value="#{contacts.firstResult}"/>
</page>

components.xml

<fwk:entity-query name="contacts" max-results="2" entity-manager="#{entityManager}">
 <fwk:ejbql>from Contact</fwk:ejbql>
</fwk:entity-query>

Contact.java
one and the same with the example

CONCLUSION:
I found out that data pagination via EntityQuery is the best solution at the moment for SEAM based projects, because it avoids the "end of memory" problem for big DB > 1 mln entity records. From the other hand IceFaces is great JSF framework and we are not likely to exclude it from our project. We really will do appreciate if mr. Gavin King and the authors of ICEfaces could cooperate to fix that bug.