Seam + IceFaces

[tony.herstell1]

Is is likely that RedHat/JBoss would buy/absorb IceFaces to add them to the stack that they support?

The supportable stack for Seam is already outstripping JBoss AS now with support for WebSphere and others.

A lot of companies want "one throat to throttle" when incorporating stacks.

Advantages:

Huge experience in JBoss (Seam) team of managing Open Source Apps (many open source developers have offered to help with iceFaces but are they being utilised yet?)

Already IceFaces / Seam have a close relationship (see point above!).

One Stop Shop for training for Web2 Apps.

One $$commercial$$ support contract for using a typical stack like:
Linux Server Running Red Hat (or equiv).
Some DBase server (MySql?)
JBoss (or other supported) Application Server (cluster)
Seam App(s) (inc. Spring Legacy code) .

One Forum (with bug tracking)

Disadantages:
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[nickarls]

(found this while searching for else)

Yes, that would indeed be nice. Although it would overlap with RichFaces...

[tony.herstell1]

Well, use RichFaces (or both).
The ides still would stand... 1 stack... 1 throat to throttle!

[pmuir]

Putting on my Red Hat for a moment, we basically offer this, RHDS being the last (?) piece of the puzzle:

RHEL + JBoss AS + Supported database + Hibernate/Seam/jBPM/Drools etc. + RichFaces/Facelets + RHDS

Ok. So we can't offer support on the database itself but apart from that...

[tony.herstell1]

Yup, this thread was started afore RHDS came out I think.