Migrating NB6.7 projects to NB6.8 - reference issues.

[burferd1]

I have several projects that were created in NB6.5 and are currently working under NB6.7.

I just downloaded and installed the full version of NB6.8 (288mb version) and want to move my projects from the 6.7 environment to 6.8.
These are JSF web applications.

The problem is that I get unresolved reference problems for libraries that were standard in NB6.7

Here are the reference issues I am seeing:
jsf12-support library could not be found.
woodstock-components library could not be found
woodstock-theme-default library could not be found
exceptionhandler-runtime library could not be found.

I have no clue how to resolve these, since I did not specifically load these libraries to NB6.7. They were already there.

Does this mean that I cannot migrate existing NB6.7 projects to NB6.8?

If not, then how can I resolve these reference issues?

If these can't be resolved, then I guess I am stuck with remaining in NB6.7 for these projects and I am VERY dissapointed with the fact that there is no backward compatibility.
From my perspective, that makes NB6.8 useless except for new projects.
Which, basically makes it useless for me, since I have a couple dozen projects that cannot migrate.

Thanks.

[oakmario]

I too just upgraded from NetBeans 6.7.1 and I had a web application project using JSF 1.2 and Woodstock components. Now I have several broken project references to libraries no longer included.

I went to the Woodstock support page and that was no help. I see that the Visual Web JSF project is no longer supported, nor are the Woodstock components and Sun now wants us to use ICEfaces.

This is not good. The conversion to ICEfaces is not trivial and would require a lot of work.

How can I get my web application project to build on Netbeans 6.8? Can someone list the steps to actually install the "jsf12-support" library and the other 3 missing libraries into my project?

Thank you.

[burferd1]

Not good news.

Not only is the conversion to ICEfaces not trivial, there is no visual web support after NetBeans 6.5.1 and ICEfaces 1.7.2.

I have several ICEfaces projects that I cannot migrate out of that environment because of the lack of visual editor support.

My pages are too complex to just slap a couple hundred components there without having some way to visually organize them.

[Peter Magsam]

You can use Woodstock with 6.8 and it works fine. No problems. For this
you need only a little bit fantasy. Copy the folder visualweb2 to 6.8 like
this C:\Programme\NetBeans 6.8 \visualweb2.

Start netbeans and open your project. Before opening save your
project!!!!!! The reason: the first opening of a project destroys the
layout of your Woodstock components and the dialogues are extreme slow. I
reported this bug of course no reaction. Never make a clean. The clean will
destroy your project too.

After the first opening restore your backup. Only the first opening damages
your project.

I work always with the newest versions of netbeans. My project has more than
130 dialogues and many batch jobs.

The community wanted to keep Woodstock alive. We appreciate it for
developing web application very efficient. The

[4fingers]

Hi
Have a look at http://forums.netbeans.org/topic20920.html which sorted out
my problem.

Hope this helps
Corrie


burferd wrote:

[zenonasz]

Hi there it seems i ll need your help.

I have copy and paste the visualweb2 in the correct directory, however it seems that netbeans still cant find the library for woodstock-components and default-theme.

Any sugestions

Please note am on a macosX but still i found the directory quite easy and i if i navigate to plugins i can see both default them and runtime and designtime under downloaded.


Thanks any help will be apreciated