When created via API, a SelectInputText component gets assigned a wrong renderer type "com.icesoft.faces.Text". A correct default renderer type, according to the JavaDoc, should be "com.icesoft.faces.SelectInputText". When created via a tag though, a SelectInputText component gets correctly initialized with a correct renderer type.

The problem can be reproduced by binding a bean that will create an instance of SelectInputText with this snipplet:

<ice:panelGroup binding="#{autoCompleteTestBean.panel}" >

public void setPanel(HtmlPanelGroup panel) {
...
   SelectInputText input = new SelectInputText();
   panel.getChildren().add(input);
...
}

The resulting HTML code for the SelectInputText component is rendered as an ordinary InputText without any autocomplete features, unless the line

input.setRendererType(SelectInputText.COMPONENT_TYPE);

is not added to the code of the setPanel() method.

A quick inspection of the source code of the SelectInputText class shows that the renderer type "com.icesoft.faces.SelectInputText" is declared in the class but is never assigned in its code. Instead, a class instance inherits a renderer type from its superclass which is HtmlInputText