Overview of the TimeZone Application

By following all the steps in this tutorial, you will build an ICEfaces application called TimeZone (shown in Figure 7 ) from source code and deploy it to your local Tomcat server.

The application is not entirely an accurate representation of all time zones represented on the map, but serves as an effective example of how to enrich a web application with ICEfaces. The application was deliberately simplified to demonstrate the features that ICEfaces provides to improve the richness and interactivity of a web application.

The completed ICEfaces TimeZone application has the following features:

• The current time, using the time zone of the application server, is displayed in the top left of the table.
• To the right of the server's current time is a second time display for an alternate time zone, which can be chosen by clicking on any section of the map.
• Below the map are checkboxes that, when selected, add time zone details to the table at the bottom. Deselecting a checkbox removes the details from the table.

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