Got the following exception when building and running app. in Intellij:

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraints violated when linking javax/el/ExpressionFactory class
at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspInit(index_jsp.java:22)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.init(HttpJspBase.java:52)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.getServlet(JspServletWrapper.java:159)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:329)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:861)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1584)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Set up code in component showcase to run sample.

Chinese characters do get input and transmitted to server successfully. See video at http://screencast.com/t/oQdkecmtzE and screenshot 1.

The characters display as question marks because the program doing the display can't handle the Unicode characters properly, as can be seen in screenshot 1, where Intellij (or Tomcat?) can't display the characters with the correct Unicode.

The handling of key events for displaying the list is a big problem. As can be seen from the video, the key sequences for inputting a character is totally different from English ASCII input, and they can be different from input method to input method and keyboard to keyboard. And what about copying and pasting a character or a string of characters? And what about mix typing English characters and Chinese characters? All these the auto complete component can't seem to handle. Seems it can only handle ASCII input where one key maps to one character.

Given the complex nature of this issue, it is not feasible for us to attempt to address this on the ice:selectInputText component. It may be possible to improve support for none-ASCII text input with a new auto-complete component as part of the ICEfaces Advanced Components initiative.