How to change theme in ICEfaces 3

Question

I am using Maven to download ICEfaces dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.icefaces</groupId>
    <artifactId>icefaces</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.icefaces</groupId>
    <artifactId>icefaces-compat</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.icefaces</groupId>
    <artifactId>icefaces-facelets</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.2</version>
</dependency>

I checked the Binaries and the Sources from the official ICEfaces website, both zip files does not contain the xmlhttp folder which contains the CSS files for the themes.

Adding the following in web.xml file doesn't change anything:

<context-param>
    <param-name>org.icefaces.ace.theme</param-name>
    <param-value>rime</param-value>
</context-param>

I have never used icefaces, but going through the documentation it looks like themes are only supported for ACE components, and not ICE (compat) components that you have in your dependencies. Any reason why you don't use ACE, since ICE seems to be legacy? — Predrag Maric, Feb 06 '15 at 10:25
@PredragMaric A big part of the application was built using ICEfaces 1.7, I'm upgrading to version 3, I wanna avoid changing extremely the markup and code. — Ali Bassam, Feb 06 '15 at 12:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 09 '15 at 00:04

You can load the styling resources for each page in your application with regular <link> tags or the JSF <h:outputStylesheet> component .

The styling resources (images and theme.css file) for the rime and sam themes could be found in icefaces/icefaces-ace-3.0.0.jar.zip.

The directory of the rime theme is:

META-INF/resources/icefaces.ace/themes/rime/

How to change theme in ICEfaces 3

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