[NETBEANS-84] Support for JSF 2.3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 8.2, 9.0, Next
• Fix Version/s: 11.3
• Component/s: javaee - JSF
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Josh Juneau
• Reporter: Philip Durbin
• Created: 10/Oct/17 13:59
• Updated: 03/Nov/20 15:44
• Resolved: 31/Jan/20 16:27

Description

One thing that struck me while attending Ed Burns' JSF talk[1] about JSF 2.3 at JavaOne 2017 was a comment he made that autocompletion isn't working in Netbeans for JSF 2.3 features. I would describe this as NetBeans 8.2 showing "angry red" for components it doesn't understand, such as f:validateWholeBean.

As in the attached screenshot, an example error is "The component library Jsf Core does not contain component validateWholeBean".

Here's the code from the screenshot: https://github.com/javaee/glassfish-samples/blob/4b3a37500a256bb7d94e2abe273503c9fb017c6b/ws/javaee8/jsf/ee8additions/src/main/webapp/validateWholeBean.xhtml

In the past, NetBeans releases were coordinated with Java EE releases. When Java EE 8 came out, I expected that NetBeans 9 would come out and support JSF 2.3. When we onboard new developers, I would rather not say to them, "It's ok to see angry red like this in NetBeans."

Incidentally, during Ed's talk I asked if he knew if JSF 2.3 is supported by IntelliJ or Eclipse and he wasn't aware if they support it or not.

[1] Contemporary Java Web Applications with JSF 2.3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshXLB_HdhU

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: NETBEANS-3150 Omnifaces, Adminfaces - taglibs not recognized
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1576
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1633