How to recover from deletion of JSF Run-Time Support Library

Question

While using the library manager to add a new library, we accidentally deleted the JSF Run-Time Support library. This was a big mistake as nothing works after doing this. Is there any way to recover from this gracefully and manually reconfigure this library back into the library manager? We have experimented with it on another system and found that we have to completely delete the user's preferences and then re-install JSC2 thus losing all the developer's environment which is quite a loss. We are sure it will happen again but we would like to find a more graceful recovery solution. This is a Windows environment.

Answer 1

You can recreate the library definition, but doing it using the library manager tool is not possible.
Close Creator. Inside your Creator user directory, create a file "jsfsupport-runtime.xml" in the directory
.Creator\2_0\config\org-netbeans-api-project-libraries\Libraries
Add the following content to the new file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE library PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD Library Declaration 1.0//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/library-declaration-1_0.dtd">
<library version="1.0">
    <name>jsfsupport-runtime</name>
    <type>j2se</type>
    <localizing-bundle>com.sun.rave.api.jsf.project.libraries.Bundle</localizing-bundle>
    <volume>
        <type>classpath</type>
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/jsfcl.jar!/</resource>
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/jsf-impl.jar!/</resource>
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/jsf-api.jar!/</resource>
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/commons-beanutils.jar!/</resource>
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/commons-collections.jar!/</resource>
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/commons-digester.jar!/</resource>
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar!/</resource>       
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/dataprovider.jar!/</resource>       
        <resource>jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/appbase.jar!/</resource>
    </volume>
</library>Restart Creator. Note however that if you delete your .Creator directory, you will loose the library definition.
// Gregory