When loading the compat version of the Rich Input Text component using ICEfaces 3 and Liferay 5.2.3 (the Liferay version may not be relevant given the nature of the problem), there are a couple of ckeditor resources that don't load.

The initial ckeditor.js file loads properly using the following URL:

http://localhost:8080/web/guest/richtext?_inputRichText_WAR_componentshowcaseportlet_INSTANCE_6ThI_javax.faces.resource=inputrichtext%2Fckeditor%2Fckeditor.js&p_p_col_count=1&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_id=inputRichText_WAR_componentshowcaseportlet_INSTANCE_6ThI&p_p_lifecycle=2

But two other files that CKEditor depends on do not because they don't appear to use standard JSF loading techniques:

Request URL:http://localhost:8080/web/guest/skins/kama/editor.css?t=B1GG4Z6
Request Method:GET
Status Code:404 Not Found

Request URL:http://localhost:8080/web/guest/lang/en.js?t=B1GG4Z6
Request Method:GET
Status Code:404 Not Found

During evaluation of ckeditor.js, there are console errors becauses the files cannot be found and because the language file did not load:

GET http://localhost:8080/web/guest/lang/en.js?t=B1GG4Z6 404 (Not Found)
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'options' of undefined
GET http://localhost:8080/web/guest/skins/kama/editor.css?t=B1GG4Z6 404 (Not Found)

The language one is particularly problematic because it prevents the creation of the editor around this code:

onLoad:function(){j.contextMenu=e.createClass({base:a.menu,$:function(m){this.base.call(this,m,{panel:{className:m.skinClass+' cke_contextmenu',attributes:{'aria-label':m.lang.contextmenu.options}}});

I'm not familiar with how we get the CKEditor to load up the resources it is dependent on but seems that they should be using standard JSF resource handling strategies or we'll have problems with portlets.