Feedback for NetBeans

Productivity is (imo)
- Code completion (css, attributes, EL, CDI beans, entities, jsf/facelets)
- Validation (css, attributes, CDI beans, entities jsf/facelets)
- Code navigation (ctrl-click)
- Hot deployment on a running server
- etc..

That is something that happens day in day out. Generating crud apps based on a database is nice, but having the entities generated, and maybe some controller is more then enough. The UI stuff is most of the time not what you want and changing things is almost as much work as starting from scratch.

Keeping an IDE up to date with the often improving and chaning components AND having al of the above IN the graphical design part is SOOOO difficult that it is not worth the effort of at least the Primefaces Team. (Not even JBoss has a full graphical IDE for their richfaces components afaik and not sure about Oracle.)

[optimus.prime]

Visual editor is only good to sell the product to managers.

I hope you will agree with me that the support for Expression Language in JSF must be improved. Here are the problems I encountered:

Expression Language code completion feature in Netbeans for JSF always suggest parameters for method expressions (or empty parentheses if the method has zero paremeters).
For example, If I have a class called Bean and a method with signature public List suggest(String s) then Netbeans complete the EL like #{bean.suggest(s)}

As you can see, I have to remove the parentheses and the suggested parameters because if I dont then the code will not run.
In the previous example, i have to edit the code to #{bean.suggest}

But when I remove it, then I have two problems:
· Code navigation (Ctrl + click on the method expression) will not navigate to the source code
· Method Refactoring in source code will not apply in the method expressions

Does anyone has the same problem?

arturo wrote:

I hope you will agree with me that the support for Expression Language in JSF must be improved. Here are the problems I encountered:

Expression Language code completion feature in Netbeans for JSF always suggest parameters for method expressions (or empty parentheses if the method has zero paremeters).
For example, If I have a class called Bean and a method with signature public List suggest(String s) then Netbeans complete the EL like #{bean.suggest(s)}

As you can see, I have to remove the parentheses and the suggested parameters because if I dont then the code will not run.
In the previous example, i have to edit the code to #{bean.suggest}

But when I remove it, then I have two problems:
· Code navigation (Ctrl + click on the method expression) will not navigate to the source code
· Method Refactoring in source code will not apply in the method expressions

Does anyone has the same problem?

These are issues to do with NetBeans itself and has nothing to do with PrimeFaces support in NetBeans.

[optimus.prime]

NetBeans Team is very friendly and always look for ways to improve the tooling in NetBeans. Try posting this in NetBeans tracker and let's see their response. They are watching this post as well.