To my surprise and dismay, it does not provide Visual Web functionality. Lately, I've been using the NetBeans 6.7 release candidate, one of the first things I did after installing this version of NetBeans was to get the IceFaces NetBeans plugin for it. I actually used the IceFaces VWP NetBeans plugin for a small project, although my initial impression of the NetBeans IceFaces plugin was less than favorable, after a while I started liking it. Unfortunately it looked like this was the beginning of the end of VWP. Visual Web Pack used the Woodstock JSF component library, in October 2008, Sun announced that it would be abandoning project Woodstock, but luckily provided a migration path to IceFaces, going as far as having IceFaces provide a VWP plugin for NetBeans.
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VISUAL PARADIGM NETBEANS PLUGIN CODE
Additionally, a database table could be dragged to some of the components, and a lot of "plumbing" code was automatically generated to display or update, as illustrated in this tutorial.
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Although on the surface this sounds simple, it was a big time saver. When creating a VWP page, a managed bean was created automatically, and automatically added to faces-config.xml. One of the features I really liked about NetBeans was it's Visual Web Pack (VWP) functionality, it allowed developing the GUI of a JSF application by simply dragging and dropping components from a palette into the page.Īlthough I have no trouble actually typing code or markup by hand, especially with a good code editor such as the one provided by NetBeans, the convenience of VWP didn't stop with the visual drag and drop.