[Andy Gorman]

I am having trouble getting the JSF Visual Designer working. I had installed the osx coco 64-bit version of MESE9.1 and was not seeing the design tab while editing my7 JSF pages. I noticed the forum thread below and followed instructions.

https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/visual-jsf-designer-design-tab-not-appearing/

I installed the carbon version and still did not see the design tab. I created a new workspace and installed the example app “SimpleFaceletsExample” I still do not see the preview tab.

My understanding is that JSF Visual Designer is supported in MESE 9.1 for mac osx 32-bit carbon. Am I misunderstanding something? I would really like to get code hints and ability to use “Open Declaration (F3)” to follow the code.

Any suggestions?

[Andy Gorman]

I noticed that although the preview tab does not show up in the SimpleFaceletsExample, I can follow the code link from the inputname.xhtml #{person.name} expression by moving cursor to “name” and hitting F3. I cannot do this in my application. I am using JSF annotations and not the faces-config file to declare my managed beans. Does the JSF editor rely on the faces-config file to follow code declarations?

[support-swapna]

agorman ,

The Visual JSF Designer is not available for Mac OS. It is available in Windows/Linux only. You can open the page with Visual JSP Designer.It doesn’t provide the visual design tab but does give a preview tab.

The F3 function does require the managed bean to be defined in the faces-config.xml.

Let us know if you have any other issues.

[Andy Gorman]

Your product feature page indicates that the JSF Java Server Faces Designer is available for OSX.
http://www.myeclipseide.com/module-htmlpages-display-pid-1.html

And then in your release notes it indicates that the Visual Designers are only available in the Carbon version:
http://www.myeclipseide.com/module-htmlpages-display-pid-481.html

Note: Due to technical constraints, the Cocoa installations of MyEclipse will not include Visual Designers, the REST Explorer and JavaScript debugging. Users can always choose to provision a Carbon version of MyEclipse, even on Cocoa systems to retain access to all features.

This really seems like false advertising. I’m not suggesting it is intentional deception, but it is clearly false information nonetheless. PLEASE FIX YOUR PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS!!!!!

[Brian Fernandes]

agorman,

While none of the designers are available on the Mac/ ocoa, they are available on Carbon if the experimental flag is used. Unfortunately the xulrunner builds that we use on the Mac have not been stable enough to make this feature available by default.

1) I realize that the several documents/notes that you have seen are misleading and will get those corrected.

2) The note about the experimental flag being used is in the full version of the release notes, in our internal Help. (Help > Help Contents > MyEclipse Learning Center > Release Notes > MyEclipse 9.1 – Section 4)
To use this, edit your myecilpse.ini file and add

-Dmac.experimental=true

to the end; this should enable the designers.

Please let me know how it goes.

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