Missing Body Element when adding new Visual Web JSF pages on NB 6.1

[jcachia]

I have re-installed netbeans 6.1 after uninstalling the netbeans 6.5 beta. Now, each time I add a new Visual Web JavaServerFaces page, I get the message "Missing Body Element" in the Design 'tab' and when selecting the JSP 'tab' I get a warning messagebox stating that "The document Page1 could not be loaded". All I get is the java tab which contains what seems to be a correct Java class pertaining to the JSF page.

Any ideas are welcome!

[HandyGeek]

Try repairing your userdir folder:
Userdir located in e.g "C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\.netbeans\6.1"
Delete this directory, and the IDE will rescan all sources on next
start up.

Unfortunately upon repoening a project you lose:
Datasource connections
Click the button add connection
Caches are stored in your userdir in folder var/cache/index
Static IDE configurations: mostly stable (new modules installed,
extra files,...)
HTH /David

jcachia wrote:

[Nick Beare]

Sounds like your 'Visual Web JSF Page ...' code template is mucked up!

Mine looks like this:-
<#assign pound = '#'>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="${encoding}"?>
<!--
Document : ${name}
Created on : ${date}, ${time}
Author : ${user}
-->

<#if j2eePlatformVersion?? && j2eePlatformVersion = "1.5">
<jsp:root version="2.1" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=${encoding}"
pageEncoding="${encoding}"/>
<f:view>
<webuijsf:page id="page1">
<webuijsf:html id="html1">
<webuijsf:head id="head1">
<webuijsf:link id="link1"
url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
</webuijsf:head>
<webuijsf:body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
<webuijsf:form id="form1">
</webuijsf:form>
</webuijsf:body>
</webuijsf:html>
</webuijsf:page>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>
<#else>
<jsp:root version="1.2" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:ui="http://www.sun.com/web/ui">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=${encoding}"
pageEncoding="${encoding}"/>
<f:view>
<ui:page id="page1">
<ui:html id="html1">
<ui:head id="head1">
<ui:link id="link1" url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
</ui:head>
<ui:body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
<ui:form id="form1">
</ui:form>
</ui:body>
</ui:html>
</ui:page>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>
</#if>


You could try pasting this into yours and see if that fixes it
(Tools>Templates>JavaServer Faces>Visual Web JSF Page then click Open in
editor, paste the above in and save changes).

I suspect though, that you don't have a clean 6.1 install and other problems
may come to light later. It may be safer to uninstall, clean out your
userdir, then reinstall.

Regards
Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: jcachia [mailto:address-removed]
Sent: 12 October 2008 20:49
To: address-removed
Subject: [nbusers] Missing Body Element when adding new Visual Web JSF pages
on NB 6.1

I have re-installed netbeans 6.1 after uninstalling the netbeans 6.5 beta.
Now, each time I add a new Visual Web JavaServerFaces page, I get the
message "Missing Body Element" in the Design 'tab' and when selecting the
JSP 'tab' I get a warning messagebox stating that "The document Page1 could
not be loaded". All I get is the java tab which contains what seems to be a
correct Java class pertaining to the JSF page.



Any ideas are welcome!

[roberthook]

[roberthook]

[roberthook]

Continuing on. I have my project libraries copied locally. Realising that it was possible that there were now inconsistencies between local copies of Woodstock and related libraries, I removed those.

I then discovered that there was no simple and obvious way of getting the new versions of the libaries into the project, and had to create a second project just to get the right things copied into the right place, then copied those copies and stuffed around getting all the library pointers back in place. This seems to have resolved the Designer problem.

So. Check to see if you have project-local copies of the libraries, and force the IDE to find and know about the new versions.

[thompsonwd40]

Ouch, glad you resolved the problem - unfortunately needing to use brute force.

My solution to my "missing body elements" problem: remove iReports plugin. This occurred a few weeks ago when I installed the iReports plugin along with several other plugins at the same time, I was bug-searching and opening problem reports for several days. Removing iReports solved the Visual JSF problems for me. Hope this helps somebody else some time, AFAIK iReports still blows up Visual JSF in 6.5.

/David

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "roberthook" <address-removed>

[jcachia]

I tried uninstalling, reming userdir, re-installing and updating plug-ins and the problem remained.
On seeing the iReport plugin suggestion (which plugin I cannot find in the list), I decided to uninstall again netbeans, removed userdir and re-installed but this time WITHOUT updating the latest plug-ins. The problem therefore relates to one of the plug-in updates, by elimitation.

Now when I find some time, I'll try to understand which (out of 27) is the offending one.

Thanks (was expecting some more robustness from such a well publicsed IDE).

[HandyGeek]

Glad to hear you isolated the problem, and I feel your pain at having to
manually figure out which plugin is the offending one (been there, done
that myself). When you isolate the offending plugin, please create an
issue to alert the plugin creator of a much-needed fix. You have done
your own homework on your problem, and you are now a contributor to this
"robust" list's growing knowledge base, we are all doing the best we can
with what we got. Best to you! David

jcachia wrote:

[jcachia]

Definitely. I believe that this and other similar forums are a pearl of knowlegde and dedication which I appreciate and use.

Thanks again.

[Mordred113]

Yes kill the iReports plugin....that is the fix.

[rochoncuar]

İ removed the ireport plugin and of course jasperreports plugins likely...
But I have a question, can we still use a .jasper file, with our web applications?
I mean, is adding the required .jar files of jasperreports enough to use a report in our project???

[Don Millhofer]

Hi rochoncuar, Yes, we have never used the Jasper plug-in but have used
Jasper reports for a couple years. It works quite well.

Don



rochoncuar wrote:

[rochoncuar]

thanks

[nastysunil]

Simply go in Tools>plugins>installed> check in the checkbox of show details..
then select ireports checkbox n simply deactivate ireports n restart ide.. no need to uninstall ireports.. n now Visual web jsf works finer lik b4... enjoy..