JSF- IDE'S

What are the available Free JSF IDE ?
thanks in advence

I am using Netbeans 5.5. There is a plugin for faces avaliable if you need more support for the faces configuration.
Unfortunately there is no support for MyFaces.
Regards Mark

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    JSF IDE options options options
    Hey guys just a quick question.
    I am currently using eclipse with exadel
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    I just wanted to know what you guys think in oracle JDeveloper vs Suns Java Studio creator?
    The thing that is annoying me with JDeveloper (after following their tutorial) they create managed beans which bind all their UI components never really liked this solution find it funny they do this in their tutorial that aside which do you guys think is better?

    I use Java Studio Creator. Why?
    Because it was the first one I could install and get to run without jumping thru a lot of hoops.
    And it was free.
    I've used JBuilder since JBuilder 3, but after JBX, I could not get the features I needed for free.
    And if anyone was going to stay on top of JSF, it was going to be Sun.
    What do I like about it?
    It seems to have all of the stuff together. I tried eclipse, but it had no GUI for building JSF components without a 3rd party demo package (mind you, that was several months ago).
    What do I hate about it?
    1) It can be slower than mole-asses, especially when starting the server.
    2) It seems that every other time I try to run a program, I get an error saying it is already in the server - some problem with dropping the reference. Most of the time a clean rebuild fixes that problem. Annoying, but it works.
    With regards to performance, I have to mention the system I am using.
    I have a Toshiba satellite laptop with a 2.5Gh Intel processor and 1Gb memory. running Windows XP (Dual booting with Linux Fedora 3). I'm using the Windows version of JSC - have not tried the Linux version because when I boot in Linux I only get a 800 x 600 screen) (really ticks me off, but that's another forum). Bscically the screen resolution makes it unusable. You need at least 1280 X 1024.
    I also have every database server known to mankind running in the badkground, so I figure that cuts down my effective horsepower by at least 25%.
    After a couple of days, I keep getting low virtual memory warnings. Not sure if it is because of JSC or all the other background garbage. JSC itself seem to chew up about 500K of virtual memory (proably twice that when it gets going). Without JSC I'm using about 250K, with JSC in the background I''m using about 600-700K, when running, my virtual memory requirements go up to about 1.3 to 1.5G.
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    In General, I am very pleased with JSC2. I wish it were a bit leaner and meaner, but then I would complain that it does not have all the features.
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    Hi,
    After nearly 8 months of using JSC, I have decided to bite the bullet and move to another JSF IDE. My company has a JSC system in place and working fine, but overall the performance of the IDE is not good enough.
    Having recently used 2 other IDE's from IBM and Oracle, whilst not as functionaly GUI rich, they offer more in terms of IDE responsiveness, refactoring and local app server memory size.
    I would have thought by this point, the IDE would have been sorted out by now. Right clicking and waiting 30 secs for something to happen is not acceptable in this day and age.
    I appreciate what the JSC team have done over the last 2 years in terms of JSF for the masses, but, lets be honest, and I don't think I am alone here, it is so frustrating trying to develop in it!!!
    Can anybody in the JSC team let me know if there any updates coming out soon, or will it be bundled with Netbeans? I have 3 fairly big projects coming up and once I move to another tool, I will never use JSC again.
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    I have always wondered why java IDEs lack the RAD tools they have in VisualStudio.Net where you can drag and drop rich components for web applications, such as a web calendar component or database table with pagination and sorting.
    I was pleasantly surprised when I installed and played with Studio creator. I think it still lags in performance and features, compared to VS.Net, but it�s getting there. I run it on IBM ThinkPad T41, with 1.5 GB RAM and it works just fine. I am also running MS SQL server 2005 express on the same box.
    I have tried IBM Rational Web Developer, Eclipse 3.x (with all kinds of plug ins), and Java Studio. I think Java Studio is the best, but not as good as VS.NET -- keep in mind there is a free version of VS.NET called Visual Web Developer Express. I would strongly recommend Java Studio team to play with it to learn and copy some of its features, such as lots of rich web components, good performance, and great css/style editing features. As an example, Sun Studio has only a few design themes, but VS.NET has dozens of themes and styles for tables, look and feel, etc.
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    Nonetheless, I am still impressed with Studio Creator, and I really wish they have 3.0 sooner rather than later. This is the best IDE for java based web apps. Creator team seems very creative and agile. They just need to quickly close the gap with VS.NET by providing additional components (i.e. vertical and horizontal JSF menus/dropdowns), about a dozen more themes, ability to copy and customize themes visually, additional styles (like in VS, you can quickly change a table style from default to one of the dozens, such as professional, contemporary, etc), more and comprehensive examples, tutorial, books, etc. and even a possible certification in Studio Creator/JSF. How about Sun Certified JSF Developer and Sun Certified developer for Studio Creator?
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  • Jsf IDEs??

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    I think you can't find easier IDEs.
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    copy and paste:
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    500 Maryville University Drive
    St. Louis, Missouri 63141
    Topic:      
    The announcement of WebSphere Studio 5.1.1 is anticipated for late November. This presentation will review the overall announcement and go into detail concerning the development tooling for JavaServer Faces (JSF) (JSR 127). JSF provides a developer interface framework for building J2EE applications and rendering the user interface in a Web browser. Using the Studio's JSF tooling, an example of accessing a database and rendering the results will be examined.
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  • Jsf--ide

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  • Are there any hot fixes or releases due soon?

    It's been a while since I've seen anything released from the update centre. Are there any fixes due for release soon?
    Despite several months, a few hot fixes and the JSC2 Update 1 release, JSC2 doesn't seem to have improved all that much since the initial release.
    The main issue for me at the minute is performance. I know this has been discussed several times on this forum, but there is very little information on when we might see a release that starts to address this issue. I realise that the issue is complex and probably covers many functional areas of the app, so a hot fix or two will not address the problem. However, at the minute working with JSC2 on a medium sized application is unproductive and is becoming almost unusable. For example, even minor code tweaks or property changes completely lock the IDE for around 30 seconds and send my CPU usage to 100%. The thing is that, functionally JSC2 is excellent. This is the way I want to be building my JSF applications and I'm very grateful to Sun for making it available for free. If it wasn't hampered with these performance issues I'd be knocking out web apps in no time at all but unfortunately, as it stands now, it is almost a hinderance. I have some new projects coming up where I would like to use JSC2 but I cannot recommend it on the grounds of productivity.
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    As per previous posts, complete agreement.
    I have built a production system in-house for a large company using JSC. I had to get my machine upgraded to 2GB just to get some usuability but it still needs a few jsc re-starts and appserver restarts through out the day.
    Functionality wise, JSC is such a winner and the guys at SUN have indeed did a great job. I come from a VB environement for the last 12 years, so having a rich web client tool was high on my priority. But if I am to try and preach to the rest of the J2EE guys here, the performance issues really need to be addressed. They are used to Eclipse and I don't need to go on about how good that tool is. If any other company gets JSF to work under Eclipse the way JSC does, I would have no hesitation in using that tool.
    I hvae tried some of the Eclipse based JSF IDE's and they don't even compete with JSC in terms of ease of use and putting apps together. But they do not lock the machine for 30 secs when I click a property or right click on a component !
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    problem in 3 months. If this performance problem can be beat, JSC will set the standard for GUI development for years. If not, then it will be consigned to the nearly made it bin.
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    if not, then I will be forced into a corner to use IDM RAD tool for JSF development, of which I do not want to do. My company has an IBM affiliation, but I like to use the best tools for the job.
    Overall, impressed by JSC but the final hurdle has not been jumped.
    Regards,
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  • Seeking JSR 223 Feedback -PHP/Java Integration-& giving feedback wrt JSC

    This is also posted at
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    I'm very familiar with Struts, J2EE, and swing. While I have been trying to push JSF, thinking this would alleviate some of the complexity for php developers (at least this is what the Java Studio Creator hype claims, I'm having a hard time convincing them to do so when Java Studio Creator the supposed RAD JSF IDE is so slow. (running 1gb ram windoze xp professional)
    I understand that the power in JSF is abstracting out request/response and having essentially interogated request objects with web apps for so long and then realizing the power of an event model to free me from the ever present controller switch statement to allow swing like callback
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    However after trying to use studio creator....and Anyone who is using it and doesnt have this experience please let me know what we may be doing wrong (we are using JSC Early Access 2) and are experiencing compile and redeploy times that take 5-10 minutes or design time redraws in the ide that take 30 seconds to 2-3 minutes or longer.
    This is simply not acceptable developer productivity for people who are application developers used to working with interpreted scripting langauges like php ( or for ms developers either for that matter).
    So why dont We just use php then you say, well it doesnt scale well and there are so many apis that are available via java only. We also have a heck of a time with sockets in php and the java sockets api works really well/dependable/fast for us. And we realize how hard it is to enforce any sort of mvc pattern in a scripted language as well (although I know its possible with some php frameworks e.g. mojavi).
    So We have turned to JSR 223 for my golden ticket - Java Scalability and Dependability with PHP like developer productivity.
    I've got jsr223 samples working in tomcat 5.5 with php5. I can call a php page from inside of tomcat via the php servlet which allows you to access java objects and apis in that same php page that are on the tomcat web app classpath. ( Which I think is amazing quite frankly and the fact that this works at all I take my hat off to those who put it together, this maybe a great solution for us - and many others - considering our investments and need for developer productivity).
    Our initial concept was to write the view tier in php, however I feel that this will quickly deteriorate to writing the controller in php as well, since they dont have to write servlet /struts mappings or faces config files.
    And I think we may end up using only hibernate for persistence (the model) and axis for web services and Java for other heavy lifting tasks such as socket calls.
    In any case I have not been able to find any real world feedback on this or any actual examples of anyone setting up a nontrivial JSR 223 architecture and the only thing I have is a few examples from the jsr site which are more like Proof Of Concept examples.
    Anyone with any information please let me know. I have googled the heck out of jsr223 and jsr223 examples and am coming up emtpy handed and am worried that the last time the jsr223 site was updated was may 2005. I think this jsr may have been been put by the way side in the big push for JSF.
    In any case if anyone at Sun sees this, if Java Studio Creator had anywhere near acceptable performance I probably wouldnt even be looking at JSR223
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    I dont want to get into a debate either with anyone about php over jsp or anything like that i just want to know is anyone actually using php with java via jsr223 and if so what does their architecture look like.
    Trust me I would much rather not have to use php with java, but its pretty hard to convince a gang of time strapped php developers to use the tortoise like JSC and JSF when it takes a developer 4-5 times as long to develop a simple page with JSF in JSC as it would in php with a text editor.
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    Winston, Thanks for the feedback
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    I think that previous default settings will cause alot of garbage collection to go on since the ide seems to need more than the maximum amount of memory for the jvm and as a result this has got to be whats slowing the app down.
    Have you altered the default memory settings, or are you using the default settings in C:\Program Files\Sun\Creator2ea2\etc\creator.conf.
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    S

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  • Workshop IDE for WebLogic Platform - JSF Portlet Development

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