Is there a way to load into JDeveloper an application without a .jws file?

Question

Hi,
Even though I have struggled through the development of a simple application which has been put into production, I am still a newbie in terms of web application development, and JDeveloper (10.1.3.4) is the only IDE I learned to use. After completing the first application, I turned around to read a book (JavaServer Faces, The Complete Reference, 1st Ed, by Chris Schalk) to learn JSF, because JDeveloper assumes its user already knows JSF, but I do not, and often mix up what is JSF and what are enhancements by ADF.
After introducing the general concepts of JSF in the first eight chapters, the book starts to illustrate details of the working mechanism of JSF from Chapter 9, by means of a sample application. To use the sample application (code is downloadable from the book's web site), it is required to use either Ant or use Spring Hibernate. I know none of these. JDeveloper is the only thing I know. If I start to read Ant and Hibernate, I will go further and further away before I can eventually return back to JSF and ADF, whereas it looks to me the working of Ant and Hibernate have all been built into JDeveloper.
I wonder if I can use JDeveloper to follow the book's sample application. But the code the author provides does not have a .jws file therefore can not be loaded by JDeveloper and, even if it can, the file tree structure of the sample code files is different from that in JDeveloper.
I wonder if any people here were in the same situation as I am in now, and have found a way out? Or are there alternative books or sources suitable for a learner like me?
JDeveloper is great (and of course with the help of the great people here on the OTN forum I am grateful to) in that it shields all the technology and enables a person like me who knew almost nothing about web technology to focus on the business logic and complete an application. It defeats the purpose if, to learn to better use JDeveloper, I have to go back to primary school and trace the evolution of web technology all the way to JSF and ADF. It would be nice to do so, but will take too much time.
Many thanks in advance!
Newman

Answer 1

Shay,
Thank you very much for the instruction. The problem is solved by creating a new application with the "Web Application \[JSF, EJB\]" technology scope as the application template, saving the WEB-INF\lib\jsf-impl.jar file before replacing the public_html directory with the web directory from the book's sample code, then renaming the web directory back to public_html.
The compilation errors are largely gone, with the following still outstanding:
Project: C:\webapps\VirtualTrainer\ViewController\ViewController.jpr
   C:\webapps\VirtualTrainer\ViewController\src\com\jsfcompref\trainer\backing\Login.java
       Error(14,8): HttpServletResponse not found
       Error(15,8): HttpSession not found
   C:\webapps\VirtualTrainer\ViewController\src\com\jsfcompref\trainer\components\ScrollerTag.java
       Error(55,34): Tag not found  in class javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag in class com.jsfcompref.trainer.components.ScrollerTag
   C:\webapps\VirtualTrainer\ViewController\src\com\jsfcompref\trainer\security\SecurityFilter.java
       Error(6,8): Filter not found
       Error(7,8): FilterChain not found
       Error(8,8): FilterConfig not found Error(9,8): ServletException not found
       Error(10,8): ServletRequest not found
       Error(11,8): ServletResponse not found
       Error(12,8): HttpServletRequest not found
   C:\webapps\VirtualTrainer\ViewController\public_html\app\main.jsp
       Error(126): Unable to instantiate tag: t:scroller (class: com.jsfcompref.trainer.components.ScrollerTag)  Make sure that the tag class is available and that the tag library containing the class is not excluded from this application.
       Error(126): Unable to find class for bean: null defined by tag with class: com.jsfcompref.trainer.components.ScrollerTag
       Error(142): scroller must be terminated with /> or %> not >
   C:\webapps\VirtualTrainer\ViewController\public_html\app\edit_te.jsp
       Error(142): Unable to instantiate tag: t:scroller (class: com.jsfcompref.trainer.components.ScrollerTag)  Make sure that the tag class is available and that the tag library containing the class is not excluded from this application.
       Error(142): Unable to find class for bean: null defined by tag with class: com.jsfcompref.trainer.components.ScrollerTag
       Error(158): scroller must be terminated with /> or %> not >These errors seems to indicate that there are three things that JDev could not find for the application during compilation:
- the HttpServlet API,
- the Scroller custom tag library, and
- some filter.
I searched on the web and in the developer's guide, and tried Tools-> Manage Libraries... and Project Properties->Libraries in various ways but did not succeed in figuring out how to make the HttpServlet and the custom tag available to the application. And I am not sure what the filter exactly is for.
There are actually two .java files ScrollerComponent.java and ScrollerTag.java in the ...VirtualTrainer\ViewController\src\com\jsfcompref\trainer\components directory and, despite the compilation errors, a ...VirtualTrainer\ViewController\classes\com\jsfcompref\trainer\components\trainercomponents.tld file was generated after the compilation.
I am afraid I am asking too much. But it would be very much appreciated if you could spare some time and provide some instructions for resolving these issues.
Newman