It may be difficult to decouple some of the ICEfaces features: currently <icecore:config render="false"> allows you to turn off ICEfaces for a given page.
Does the desired feature have D2D rendering enabled but ICEfaces event capture disabled? Certain ICEfaces components (such as compat components) cannot render without ICEfaces D2D active for the page.

It's only about the ICEfaces event capture. Due to ICE-7312 every ICEfaces 2.0 application (using JSF navigation) currently has pages without automatic Ajax by accident and because nobody (including us) noticed it outside of a portal environment it doesn't seem to be absolutely necessary.

<icecore:config render="false"> is not an option because then <ice> as well as <ace> components don't work anymore or not correctly.

If the form element contains the attribute DISABLE_CAPTURE_SUBMIT then the automatic Ajax capturing function ice.captureSubmit() is not written. This should disable automatic event capture.

<h:form >
<f:attribute name="DISABLE_CAPTURE_SUBMIT" value="true" />

or

<h:form >
<f:ajax disabled="true" />

Should both have the same effect. However, the <f:attribute> technique may be preferable since the <f:ajax> technique could have side effects within JSF itself.

(I have not tested this recently, but it should be a useful debugging technique.)

Hi Ted

Thanks a lot!

<f:attribute name="DISABLE_CAPTURE_SUBMIT" value="true" /> works and does what we need for debugging purposes.

Cheers
Adrian