Why would anyone use an old copy (of PrimeFaces 2) if the greater original (PrimeFaces 3) is available as well. For example, Spring Roo only supports PrimeFaces for JSF scaffolding, people say IceFaces is also supported now. I'm sure there won't be many users of IceFaces 3, their reputation has already been damaged, there are even some icefaces jokes out there. They've made a wrong decision and copied PrimeFaces code. In order to catch up and increase their popularity. Popularity of IceFaces is so important for a company like IceSoft because they sell commercial support, trainings and consulting in addition to other commercial services. IceFaces 2 that supports JSF 2.0 was roughly released one year after we released PrimeFaces 2 that supports JSF 2. The popularity of IceFaces is fading drastically and they can't seem to catch up with the development pace of PrimeFaces. What was wrong with IceFaces? Why are they struggling and losing mindshare? InfoQ From your blog post and twitter feed, it seems like you feel IceFaces is struggling and losing mindhare. Currently we are wondering if they will sync our current development changes with their code or not.
They have based their copy on PrimeFaces 2, I don't think anyone needs IceFaces to improve code of PrimeFaces, we the PrimeFaces Team has done it for the past year and it is called PrimeFaces 3.
They claim that they have improved the code of PrimeFaces, we've checked out what has been improved but just seen the same lines as posted on our blog. So the library they have chosen to copy is PrimeFaces. PrimeFaces is currently the most popular UI library for JSF and a popular RIA framework in general for Java EE. Instead of providing an alternative they have decided to copy another library. I really don't know the actual reason, IceFaces is a competitor of PrimeFaces so IceFaces 3 has been expected to be an alternative solution to JSF ecosystem. InfoQ Why do you think they copied PrimeFaces? But first, we interviewed Çağatay Çivici. Also for fairness we caught up with Brian McKinney, President of IceSoft who is quoted later. InfoQ caught up with Çağatay Çivici, PrimeFaces lead and well known JSF expert, to get his opinions on this conflict. The PrimeFaces community is not claiming any legal issue with the fork, but are quite upset (" shocked and disappointed") that the new IceSoft Ace components are " up to 90% copied" from PrimeFaces. One could say whole companies and industries have been built with Apache forked projects. Commercial and open source companies have forked Apache projects. The Apache license is very liberal and business friendly. Note that PrimeFaces uses an Apache license. The PrimeFaces projects is claiming IceSoft copied PrimeFaces code "LINE BY LINE" for its new IceFaces Ace components. There has been a recent stir in the JSF community regarding PrimeFaces and IceFaces.
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