[news.eclipse.webtools.jsf] Re: Custom JSF Palettes

[gerry.kessler@xxxxxxxxxx (Gerry Kessler)]

Quintin,

I am happy to hear you have an interest in adding design-time support for 
Woodstock.   I don't think that you will find it terribly difficult, and 
you should find that much of the process is documented.

First read over some of the sections in Help under the JavaServer Faces 
Tooling Developer Guide.   In the Programmers Guide you will find several 
topics that will be of interest to you.   You will also find a tutorial 
called "Supplying Tag Library Meta-data for Apache MyFaces Tomahawk", 
which is a great starting point.

The best source of information is the code itself.  All of the supported 
tag libraries make use of public extension-points and classes to provide 
the design-time experience in the Web Page Editor.   Take a look at the 
org.eclipse.jst.jsf.apache.trinidad.tagsupport and 
org.eclipse.jst.jsf.standard.tagsupport plugins.   

If you have more specific questions at a later point, we should be able to 
help answer them.

Regards,
Gerry Kessler
WTP JSF Tools Team