My JSF 2 quest. Need something that works and looks pretty

I thought I would share in my battle against JSF2.


A bit of background, I've created a few applications with Icefaces 1.x and JSF 1.x in the past and wow they are great.
I've had so many complements from .NET and Python developers alike.
Have a look at these wonderful components http://component-showcase.icefaces.org/

But now GlassFish 3.0 and JSF 2 is here and the Icefaces 1.x components just don't work...
(I understand why, I'm just commenting)

So what is my natural course of action , Download Icefaces 2.0.0 Alpha 1 and wow, what a struggle.
Then I try PrimeFaces 2.0.0 RC, and does not work in GlassFish 3. (I think there is a bug logged)


So I went back to the reference implementation. It works, but it seems missing a lot of bells and whistles and where are the demos to show the components.
All I see is some rough samples that I could never use in a real application.
(Have a look at the IceFaces 1.x show case, compared to the JSF 2 reference samples)

So now I have OpenFaces 2.0 EA2 working.
It works just like the demo on the web site : http://openfaces.org/demo/overview/homepage.jsf


I'm off with my battle axe and OpenFaces, and hopefully I can dazzle a project manager on Monday with Java-EE 6.