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JSF Tools are especially designed for supporting JSF and JSF-related technologies. JSF Tools provide extensible and exemplary tools for building JSF-based applications as well as adding JSF capabilities to existing web projects, importing JSF projects and choosing any JSF implementation while developing JSF application.
In this guide we provide you with the information on JSF tooling which allows you to develop JSF applications much faster and with far fewer errors so sparing your time.
Here, we provide you with a key functionality which is integrated in JSF tooling.
Table 1.1. Key Functionality for JSF Tools
| Feature | Benefit | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| JSF and Facelets support | Step-by-step wizards for creating new JSF and Facelets projects with a number of predefined templates, importing existing ones and adding JSF capabilities to non-jsf web projects. | jsf support |
| Flexible and customizable project template management | Jump-start development with out-of-the-box templates or easily customized templates for re-use. | projects |
| Support for JSF Configuration File | Working on file using three modes: diagram, tree and source. Synchronization between the modes and full control over the code. Easy moving around the diagram using the Diagram Navigator. | graphical editor for jsf |
| Support for Managed Beans | Adding new managed beans, generating code for attributes, properties and getter/setter methods. | managed beans |
| Support for Custom Converters and Validators | Fast creating of custom converters and validators with tree view of faces-config.xml file. | converters and validators |
| Verification and Validation | All occuring errors will be immediately reported by verification feature, no matter in what view you are working. Constant validation and errors checking allows to catch many of the errors during development process that significantly reduces development time. | verification and validation |
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