Burr, please correct the following overview as required, particularly the note on Certifcation. The contents as specified in this JIRA as of June 4 2010 will be the contents of the final release notes.

The current contents of the Overview chapter follow:

1.1. Overview
JBoss Web Framework Kit combines popular open source web frameworks into a single solution for Java applications. The JBoss Web Framework Kit subscription is already included with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform. It is also available separately for JBoss Enterprise Web Server. JBoss Web Framework Kit components include:

• RichFaces
  RichFaces is a rich component library for JavaServer Faces (JSF) and an advanced framework for easily integrating AJAX capabilities into business application development. Create web applications that provide a greatly-improved user experience with strong support for modifying the look and feel of JSF applications. RichFaces also takes full advantage of the benefits of the JSF framework in terms of lifecycle, validation, and conversion facilities, with added static and dynamic resource management.

• JBoss Snowdrop
  Snowdrop is a utilities package that provides JBoss Enterprise Platform-specific extensions for the Spring framework.

Red Hat also certifies the use of the following in conjunction with JBoss Web Framework Kit:

• Spring
  Spring is a layered Java/Java EE application framework, allowing for developing components that can be used on application servers and in standalone environments, offering features such as: dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming, transparent management of transactions and resources for standalone applications, and integration with enterprise services when running in a managed environment, and a web application framework.

• Apache Struts
  Struts provides an open source framework useful in building web applications with Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. This framework encourages application architectures based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm, colloquially known as Model 2 in discussions on various servlet and JSP related mailing lists.
  Included areas of functionality are:

• A controller servlet that dispatches requests to appropriate Action classes provided by the application developer.
• JSP custom tag libraries and associated support in the controller servlet that assists developers in creating interactive form-based applications.
• Utility classes to support XML parsing.
• Automatic population of JavaBeans properties based on the Java reflection APIs.
• Internationalization of prompts and messages.

• Google Web Toolkit
  Google Web Toolkit (GWT) allows developers to quickly build and maintain complex, yet highly performant JavaScript front-end applications in the Java programming language.

Certification
Red Hat Quality Engineering uses an extensive set of tests to validate against a specific set of architectural components in our application stack (operating system, database driver, database, and JVM). The full list of certified environments is available from http://www.jboss.com/products/platforms/application/supportedconfigurations/.
This certification applies only to the specific component versions listed under Section 2.1, "Component Versions" and Section 2.2, "Certified Components".