"ICEfaces provides significant advantages over AJAX solutions that require JavaScripting," said Chris Erickson, CEO of ICEsoft, as ICEsoft today unveiled ICEfaces, a no-JavaScripting Java-based AJAX application development environment, at the 2006 JavaOne Conference in San Francisco.

"ICEfaces gives enterprise Java developers the benefits of AJAX rich web applications in a pure Java solution that integrates seamlessly into their existing Java EE infrastructure, tools, and skills," Erickson added.

One of ICEfaces' key advantages, explained its CTO Steve Maryka, is "Server-Initiated Rendering," a unique server-side feature that asynchronously initiates updates to the client user interface.

"This powerful capability enables developers to create web applications that update instantly in response to changes to the server-side state. Server-Initiated Rendering also supports broadcasting a single state change across multiple client sessions, making collaborative applications easier to create," said Maryka.

"For example," he continued, "a stock ticker application created with ICEfaces can instantly update the client web page whenever the price of stock changes, without the user or client-side JavaScript initiating the update. In a traditional web application, the user would need to refresh the page to receive the updated price information."