[Russ]

Here is my situation involving JSF and ME 5.5.1GA:

1. We have a JSF project which was not created with ME. When we look at the *.faces file, the JSF Designer throws and exception about the content within the file.

2. What I have done is stepped back and created a new Web project and added the JSF capability to it. I have dropped the *.faces file into the new project and the tool is still getting an error.

Here is the stacktrace from the tool:

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner3.src.SourceEditSystem.getSourceDocument(SourceEditSystem.java:233)
    at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner3.design.DesignEditSystem.synchronize(DesignEditSystem.java:164)

When I go and check what editors I have associated with this type of file extension, there are none. Next, I associate the file with the following editors:

MyEclipse Visual JSF Designer (default)
MyEclipse Visual JSF Designer

but I still was getting the errors.

What I learned was the content types (*.jsf, *.faces) were not set with under the JSP content types.

Windows->Preferences->General->Content Types->Text->JSP->JSF Page

I hope this helps others!

Cheers[/list]

[Riyad Kalla]

Russ,
Are things working for you now? It’s true that these extension types aren’t registered out of the box, because by default FacesServlet maps requested pages with the appropriate extension a page with the same name and a .jsp extension in the background.

So if you want to change the default extension you do need to do some legwork as you did.

[Russ]

Riyad:

I have several new developers working in ME and we were getting the exception when we double clicked on the faces file using the out-of-the-box settings. We want to view the page using the JSF Designer within ME so I just changed some association and made them explicitly. It’s good to hear this is the way it should be setup….

Russ

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