The PortletFaces project has now been formally established and can be found here: http://www.portletfaces.org
The goal the PortletFaces project is to make it easier to develop JSF portlets that run within Liferay Portal. The project contains a wealth of features that expose the standard features of the Portlet 2.0 API and vendor-specific features of Liferay in a way that is natural to JSF development. It also provides improved integration between Liferay and ICEfaces 1.x portlets.
The beginnings of PortletFaces can be traced back to a forum post made by community member Joel Kozikowski back in May of 2007. Since then, PortletFaces has been adopted by Mimacom AG and is a sub-project of the edoras framework.
Documentation for PortletFaces can be found here: http://www.portletfaces.org/documentation
ICEfaces is an open source Ajax framework that enables Java EE application developers to create and deploy server-based rich Internet application (RIA) using the Java language.
ICEfaces leverages the entire standards-based Java EE ecosystem of tools and execution environments. Rich enterprise application features are developed in pure Java, and in a pure thin-client model. There are no Applets or proprietary browser plug-ins required. ICEfaces applications are JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications, so Java EE application development skills apply directly and Java developers are isolated from doing any JavaScript related development.
