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❓ Is Myclipse intends to integrate JSF tools in the next future.

[DeanJones]

Can we first get JSF to do anything useful 😉 I spent all weekend hacking with it. Mostly, It
really messes up links becuase it does “forwards” all over the place when you really want a redirect.
Most of the time, your URL in your browser has absolutely NO RELATIONSHIP to the JSP page you are
looking at. Struts has this same problem if you don’t specify “redirect” in your action mapping,
but I always do, unless I am “chaining actions” within my app to perform discrete operations, then
I’ll use forward. The next crazy thing is that it insists the /faces be in front of everything, NOT THAT
EVERYTHING be in a faces folder, the URL says “/faces”, but it still refecences stuff from your
document root. I may pick it up again, except add the next frustration level of trying to get it to
play nice with “pluto”. Pass the Advil. 😡

[Steve Bang]

I’ll be very anxious to see support for JavaServer Faces (JSF) in MyEclipse ASAP. The final public draft is due in the next month. And, the final release is expected in January or February. Apparently, Oracle JDeveloper 10g supports it and JBuilder will support it shortly after it is finalized.

I didn’t see support for JSF on the product roadmap, so I’m worried that you may not realize how soon it is coming and how important it will be to JSP developers. Please add it to the roadmap ASAP!

Steve

[support-michael]

Thanks for the feedback. Internally we are positioning MyEclipse architecturally to be extended to support JSF. I expect our management guys will provide more feedback to the MyEclipse user community and general public very soon.

Michael
MyEclipse Support

[Mani Achanta]

I am afraid that if MyEclipse does not keep with the changes in J2EE spec, it will definitely lose its edge. I for one feel that JSF support is very crucial for the user community and very soon. I hope the MyEclipse staff realize that.

my 2c
Kumar

[Riyad Kalla]

Kumar,
I think they do, the poll on the front page speaks for the community (they want UML (omonodo?) and JSF support). But seeing as how JSF is basically a Swing designer plus taglib support, I don’t think its a simple or easy task. I feel bad for the ME guys that they would need to implement this functionality 🙂

Maybe we can hope for a first draft review in February of their editor component. I personally would like to wait and see what Rave brings to the table, so the ME guys can get some ideas on what to do and what not to do (for example, build an application ontop of the buggiest platform known to man, NetBeans)

[Sjoerd van Leent]

@DeanJones:

/faces is defined in the web.xml file. This is the same with *.do for Struts, this is necessary to detect the difference between a page and a control servlet.

@rkalla:

Please no NetBeans, don’t mention it 🙂

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