Primefaces Designer Tool

[nocknock]

Hello friends.

I'm looking for an editor for primefaces. where you can drag to place components on the screen, and thus, easily design the user interface. For example, to Ext JS, Ext Desginer there.

Do you know any?

Thank you very much.

[cagatay.civici]

There is none, we are working on an eclipse plugin but that's an experimental side project.

[chese00]

when can we expect a preview or the final version of that Eclipse plugin... or where can we download a incubation plugin for testint! ...
wow! nice!!

[aliced]

I have created a visio stencil set for some of the primefaces components which allows you to drag and drop tables, form elements, tabs etc onto a new visio document.

Would this be of any use? I can email it to you.

[ahmadhisham]

I have created a visio stencil set for some of the primefaces components which allows you to drag and drop tables, form elements, tabs etc onto a new visio document.

Would this be of any use? I can email it to you.

I can be interest, can you please send the Visio stencil to my email address please (ahmadhisham@telephoenic.com). I would appreciate it.

thank you.

[andyba]

There is none, we are working on an eclipse plugin but that's an experimental side project.

Either I am catching a cold or someone is working on a visual editor!!
Either way, I am feeling under the weather here.

[Oleg]

Hi Guys,

What is about a community driven project for a web based visual editor in cloud? RichFaces had one called Tiggr (renamed in Tiggriz for mobile apps) which I liked. I sometimes use WireframeSketcher for prototyping as Eclipse plugin. The idea is to write similar web based tool with and for PrimeFaces.

[andyba]

Seriously?

With all due respect all the effort put into Visual Design Tools would be far better spent working on the Component Libraries.
There are so many "gotchas" using the damned things and I have never seen one that actually does what it says on the box either.
Then there is the development too.

- They never give you a view of how the page will actually look (this is going to be especially true with Theming, AJAX behavior, Validation, Conversion... the list goes on)
- If they emit code it is code you cannot touch because if you do the Visual Tool either kills your changes off or your changes kill the tool off.
- The people developing the Visual Editor are always going to lag behind the Component Libraries targetted.
- They will also lag behind IDE development too.
- Targetting a Visual Editor for specific Component Libraries is anti freedom of choice: never lock your customers down to your product because they will find something more flexible instead. You will have to target a specific IDE or IDE's too. Got the manpower for that?

One of the prerequisites for such a JSF tool would be an active component to actually create the display. Now I don't know if you really want to bind Mojarra and Weld (not to mention everything else) into an IDE just to deliver mediocre WYSIWIG but I seriously recommend you not trying.

I just know that anyone who puts one of these abominations out there is going to have to answer questions like: "How do I debug my code in the Visual Editor?" and "Why does my page look so different in <INSERT BROWSER OF CHOICE HERE> than I expected?"

The Gods gave us Glassfish and Deploy on Save. Use them, learn to love them.

[Oleg]

Andy, I meant easy and fast created wireframes and prototyping with mockups + rudimental interaction. Not a full blown up visual editor.

[kukeltje]

Andy, I meant easy and fast created wireframes and prototyping with mockups

Even this is not easy. The JBoss Tools VPE comes close and it would be not realy difficult to implmenent the 'just-show-how-it-kinda-looks' with drag and drop.

It's html/css based in the backend with firefox as the renderer, so you might come close IF the components are not js based like e.g. the dijits in dojo.