Thanks all for your suggestion and advises.
It looks to me that the customization support for jsf palette is not as
friendly as java beans palette does in netbeans...
Anyway, I will try the instructions you provide, and get back to you if
I got any progress.
Jim
Jason Lee wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the Woodstock annotation processor that Jason and I used when we
>> wrote our component creation article
>> (http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/jsf_templating/)
>> generated some component design-time info that is used by NetBeans (this may
>> have been an optional step). I think more is needed in addition to the
>> generated info to make it work well inside NetBeans, but this might help get
>> you started. Jason will probably recall more of the details than I do (or
>> perhaps Ludo or Peter are familiar with what Woodstock offers?).
>>
>
> The Woodstock components DO generate some sort of metadata, but, if I
> recall correctly, that part of the code generation only worked with
> Woodstock components, for reasons I never understood. I don't
> typically use a visual designer when writing JSF pages, so it wasn't
> much of a priority for me. It's something I'd like to look into, but
> I don't have the cycles right now to front that, but I can help out
> where I can...
>
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