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PresenterRaghu SrinivasanProject LeadOracle Inc.

The JSF Tools Project

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The JSF Tools Project

Project VisionProvide comprehensive support to the Eclipse Web Tools Project

to simplify development and deployment of JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications.

Roadmap M1 - December, 16, 2005. Based on WTP 1.0. M5 - March, 13, 2006. Based on WTP1.5 M5 Milestone. RC - May, 26, 2006. Planned code freeze. Release - June, 28, 2006. Aligned with WTP 1.5 Final release.

Key Contributions Sybase – Faces Configuration Editor IBM – EMF Model of the Faces Configuration resource

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JSF Tools Features

JSF-JSP page Source Editor Features Component Palette

Content assist for values of tag attributes

Quick Assist and Quick Fix

Hyperlink

JSF page validation

Refactor

JSF Search Page

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JSF Tools Features

JSF-JSP page Source Editor Features JSF page validation

Validate existence of Java Classes, action outcomes, properties and methods on beans

Refactor

Rename/move a JSF-JSP page, Java Class Rename/delete method, property of a managed bean

JSF Search Page

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JSF Tools Features

Application Configuration Resource File Editor Features Code Contribution from Sybase Inc.

Multi-page Editor Overview page

Summary of elements in the configuration file Navigation page

graphical diagram editor for navigational rules Managed bean page

Form-based editor, Wizards Component Page Source Page

EMF model of the application configuration resource files Programmatic access

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JSF Tools Features

JSF Library registry define a named collection of JARs including tag libraries, JSF

reference implementations and utility jars.

add, remove libraries associated with a project

Automate build classpath settings and deployment

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More Information

The JSF Tools Project - http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jsf/ JavaServer Faces (JSR-127 & JSR 252) - http://www.jcp.org JSF Central (Community Website) – http://jsfcentral.com