[news.eclipse.webtools] Re: JSF and Eclipse aren't the best of mates

[Windofkeltia <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cameron Bateman wrote:
> Hi Russ,
>
>
> > project, choosing Preferences, then Java Build Path->Libraries. There 
>
> Please see the JSF tutorial at 
> http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jsf/docs/tutorial/JSFTools_1_0_tutorial.html. 
> It needs to be updated for some minor UI changes, but demonstrates how 
> to create a JSF library.  If you add the library to an existing project, 
> also ensure that you right-click on the project properties, go to J2EE 
> Module Dependencies and ensure the libraries are checked for deployment. 
> (Note the property dialog is called Java EE Module Dependencies if you 
> are working with a newer version).
>
> > Could someone explain why Eclipse doesn't help me put together a JSF 
> > project (when NetBeans makes it PERFECTLY transparent and a 
> > no-brainer) and, therefore, how a JSF project is built in Eclipse.
>
> We do provide help in the New Dynamic Web Project if you select our 
> facet. Our facet install page lets you customize what runtime, 
> additional jars and some basic web.xml configurations will be used.  
> This is also shown in the tutorial.
>
> > I have read and attempted a couple of on-line tutorials on JSF and 
> > Eclipse. They don't work and break down part-way through the exercise.
>
> Can you point me to these tutorials so I can try and get them corrected?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Cameron

Cameron,

Thanks for your reply. (Okay, not a genealogy forum, so I won't ask ;-)

Yes, this tutorial was in fact the best one and the one on which I had
founded my hopes. I did this some three or four weeks ago already, and
all went fine until I started to type in the login and welcome JSPs. I
started getting red flags at that point. There were a couple of
important typos which I corrected. At the time, it was my first foray
into JSF and I was completely in the fog. Now, however, I have done
this a bit (albeit in NetBeans) and would probably have a lot more clues,
so I need to try this again. Probably in a day or two with my present
schedule. I'll keep perfect notes on what happens so that I can
communicate anything useful to you.

Yeah, I would have thought that if my bean compiled cleanly, the 3 JSPs
correct (as demonstrated using NetBeans and later deployed to my
production server) and the web.xml done right, this should work. However,
only today I discovered that the sample app I wrote and ported from
NetBeans back to Eclipse (I insist on conquering Eclipse over this
matter) suffers from a practice I got out of G&H: Core JavaServer Faces
and isn't much used anymore (url-pattern*.faces in place of /faces/*).
So, that might be a problem too.

Now, are you telling me a JSF app practically cannot be done by hand in
Eclipse and that I must use a Dynamic Web Project? That's what I used,
but at the point at which (in the tutorial) I was supposed to create
the library, I didn't have the files, so I finished creating the
project and went back to create them via Preferences->Java Build
Path->Libraries.

Second, don't the JARs need to find their way down under
WebContent/WEB-INF/lib? Eclipse didn't put them there, so I tried
it, but this didn't help.

I'll try this tutorial again now that I'm not so clueless and let
you know.

Thanks,

Russ Bateman