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Creating ICEfaces application example connecting beans and Facelets

I'm new in developing web applications and I installed the ICEfaces plugin. I found this tutorial to learn how to work with it and the first given example dont work in my IDE.

Its about the last part of the tutorial where it shows how to use a dateTimeEntry in a webapp. So I followed the instructions so that my index.xhtml looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:icecore="http://www.icefaces.org/icefaces/core"
xmlns:ace="http://www.icefaces.org/icefaces/components"
xmlns:ice="http://www.icesoft.com/icefaces/component">

<h:body>
<form>
    <ace:dateTimeEntry id="dateTimeEntryId"
        value="#{yourBean.selectDateProperty}" timeZone="Canada/Mountain"
        pattern="MMM/dd/yyyy" style="width: 729px; " renderAsPopup="true"> 
    </ace:dateTimeEntry><br />
</form>
</h:body>
</html>

And my java bean like this:

package org.icefaces.view;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped;

import org.icefaces.ace.event.DateSelectEvent;

@ManagedBean(name= "yourBean")
@ViewScoped
public class YourBean implements Serializable {

/**
 * 
 */
private static final long serialVersionUID = 5058131064162864510L;

private Date selectDateProperty = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());

public Date getSelectDateProperty() {
    return selectDateProperty;
}

public void setSelectDateProperty(Date selectDateProperty) {
    this.selectDateProperty = selectDateProperty;
}

public void dateSelectListener(DateSelectEvent event) {
    setSelectDateProperty(event.getDate());
  }
}

The structure of the project looks like this:

Project

The point is, that in the tutorial there is no location given where to save the java beans. So I thougt it has to saved in the java resources directory, but I'm not sure because the app dont work. I just get a blank screen. The server and the configuration of it is valid I think because I can drop some Img or buttons and see the result in the browser. So I think I did not really understand how the java beans are connected with the xhtml files. I thougt it works with ManagedBean - attribute but I'm not sure about that.

Solution

  • Complete list of sample codes you can find here http://anonsvn.icesoft.org/repo/icefaces3/trunk/icefaces/samples