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Hi,
I am evaluating an JSF-enabled IDE for our project. We are using Tomahawk, Ajax4jsf, RichFaces and Facelets, so MyEclipse seemed to be the best option… however, as far as I can see, the Visual JSF Designer is only available for MyFaces Core and HTML components (and the same for Sun RI), right? I mean, if I use Tomahawk components, the visual tool is not working and it has no sense… am i right?
Please, could you confirm to me this point?
Thanks !!
Antonio.Antonio,
That is correct, at this time those items won’t be renderably from the palette and dropped onto the page.Hi,
just one more thing, maybe is a stupid question but just for my information… if each JSF component has its own renderer (usually an HTML renderer), why is this renderer not used for the preview when designing with a visual tool? I mean, I’ve seen there is some metadata info in order to make that component visually available in the palette. Is it so much complicated using the own renderer for building visual tools?
Thanks in advance!
Antonio.Antonio,
Having the component render itself is very complex given that it’s written to execute inside a running Java EE container. But as you correctly identified a lot of components do provide metadata that can be tapped into for us to show how they will render, we just haven’t done that yet.
