JSF 2.0 Support in NetBeans 6.8 M2

10.11.2009

NetBeans 6.8 Milestone 2 provides special support for JavaServer Faces 2.0. The IDE's new JSF 2.0 support builds upon its previous support for JavaServer Faces, and includes versatile editor enhancements for Facelets pages, including syntax highlighting and error checking for JSF tags, documentation support, and code completion for EL expressions, core Facelets libraries and namespaces.

Type 'jsf', then press Control-Space in the IDE's editor to call a list of JSF-specific items

Press Contrl-Space in the IDE's editor to invoke code completion for JSF namespaces

There are also various facilities for working with entity classes, and a suite of JSF wizards for common development tasks, such as creating JSF managed beans, Facelets templates and composite components.

Highlight a code snippet, then choose 'Convert to Composite Component' to invoke the IDE's Composite Component wizard