Creating a Visual Web JSF project with Netbeans 6.7.1

[Will]

With my apologies to more experienced developers I'm needing some advice...

I'd like to create my first Visual Web JSF project

All the tutorials such as

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/helloweb.html

Include a line like the following:

"Select the Visual Web JavaServer Faces framework and click Finish"

but when I get to this stage I get the

"JavaServer Faces" option and no "Visual Web JavaServer Faces" option so I can't use the visual designer.

I'm using NetBeans 6.7.1 and Java EE 5. I'm not sure whether the problem I'm having might be because I'm using NetBeans 6.7.1 and the tutorials I've found seem to be for NetBeans 6.0, 6.1 or 6.5.

I haven't tried to download Visual Web JSF separately - I think it should have been bundled along with the other Web components as part of the JDK I downloaded but I may be wrong..

Thank you very much for any advice - it's greatly appreciated.

Will

[Will]

Have tried re-installing the JDK ( using java_ee_sdk-5_07-jdk-6u16-windows.exe ) to see if this resolved the problem with creating a Visual Web JSF project in NetBeans 6.7.1 but it doesn't seem to have helped at all.

Ordinary Swing projects in NetBeans 6.7.1 work correctly.

I've tried selecting GlassFish v3 Prelude and GlassFish 2.1 and selecting Java EE 5, J2EE 1.4 and J2EE 1.3 when starting a project but this hasn't helped either. (I've no preference for GlassFish over Tomcat but tried GlassFish first because it was the default with NetBeans).

To try to determine if this is a problem specific to NetBeans version 6.7.1 I installed NetBeans 6.5 on hte same machine and in NetBeans 6.5 the "Visual Web JavaServer Faces" option is present so this issue does appear to be an issue in NetBeans 6.7.1 but not in NetBeans 6.5.

Does anyone know if the omission of "Visual Web JavaServer Faces" in NetBeans 6.7.1 is intentional, due to a bug in 6.7.1 or due to an error on my part?

Many thanks again for any advice.

Will

[Rick]

Visual web in in maintenance mode only now, so it is not included by
default. You have to load the modules manually now.

Rick

Will wrote:

[Will]

Thank you very much - found details of this on

http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/67/relnotes.html#uml-plugin

in case that's any help to anyone else.

Is moving Visual Web JSF to a plugin instead of including it in the main IDE in any way a sign that NetBeans plans to move away from Visual Web JSF? Although I probably spend more time in the code behind than the visual designer I still feel that it is an extremely valuable and important tool.

[finnur]

Thanks Will - I had the same problem when going through GLASSFISH ESB TUTORIAL A GENTLE INTRODUCTION

Best regards,
Finnur