<s>
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
was	O
a	O
project	O
for	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
framework	B-Architecture
that	O
added	O
Ajax	B-General_Concept
capabilities	O
to	O
the	O
JavaServer	B-Language
Faces	I-Language
(	O
JSF	B-Language
)	O
web	B-Application
application	I-Application
framework	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
an	O
early	O
entrant	O
to	O
the	O
JSF	B-Language
space	O
,	O
but	O
did	O
implement	O
a	O
still-rare	O
feature	O
,	O
that	O
of	O
skinning	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
is	O
now	O
contained	O
entirely	O
within	O
the	O
RichFaces	B-Language
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
was	O
created	O
by	O
Alexander	O
Smirnov	O
in	O
early	O
2005	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
New	O
technologies	O
of	O
the	O
time	O
were	O
Ajax	B-General_Concept
and	O
JavaServer	B-Language
Faces	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Smirnov	O
figured	O
to	O
merge	O
the	O
two	O
,	O
so	O
that	O
it	O
would	O
then	O
be	O
easy	O
to	O
have	O
Ajax	B-General_Concept
functionality	O
within	O
a	O
JSF	B-Language
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
began	O
on	O
SourceForge.net	B-Application
under	O
the	O
name	O
Telamon	O
(	O
from	O
the	O
Shakespeare	B-Language
play	O
,	O
Antony	O
and	O
Cleopatra	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
that	O
same	O
year	O
,	O
Smirnov	O
joined	O
Exadel	O
and	O
continued	O
to	O
develop	O
the	O
framework	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
in	O
2006	O
it	O
was	O
split	O
into	O
the	O
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
framework	B-Architecture
and	O
RichFaces	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
RichFaces	B-Language
provided	O
a	O
"	O
component-centric	O
"	O
Ajax	B-General_Concept
approach	O
(	O
components	O
do	O
everything	O
you	O
need	O
)	O
,	O
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
provided	O
what	O
's	O
called	O
"	O
page-oriented	O
"	O
Ajax	B-General_Concept
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
became	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
project	O
hosted	O
on	O
Java.net,	O
while	O
RichFaces	B-Language
became	O
a	O
commercial	O
JSF	B-Language
component	O
library	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2007	O
,	O
JBoss	O
and	O
Exadel	O
agreed	O
a	O
partnership	O
where	O
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
and	O
RichFaces	B-Language
would	O
now	O
be	O
under	O
the	O
JBoss	O
umbrella	O
and	O
be	O
called	O
JBoss	O
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
and	O
JBoss	B-Language
RichFaces	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
RichFaces	B-Language
would	O
now	O
also	O
be	O
open	O
sourced	O
and	O
free	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2007	O
,	O
JBoss	O
and	O
Exadel	O
decided	O
to	O
merge	O
Ajax4jsf	B-Language
and	O
RichFaces	B-Language
under	O
the	O
RichFaces	B-Language
name	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
now	O
part	O
of	O
JBoss	B-Language
RichFaces	I-Language
,	O
the	O
code	O
still	O
contains	O
references	O
to	O
the	O
identifier	O
'	O
a4j	O
 '	O
.	O
</s>
