How do I enable code-completion in Netbeans 6.8 for facelets in JSF 1.2?

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I'd like to enable code completion for facelets + JSF 1.2 in NetBeans 6.8. I'd prefer to enable it for a free-form project that I build using my own Ant build.xml, but I see no options to enable that, so I'm willing to go with a "Web Application with Existing Sources".

Sorry for all of the screen-shots. I just want to show what I did.

Project Setup

Choose a Project dialog

Name & Location dialog

Server & Settings dialog

Existing Sources & Libraries dialog

Project Configuration Frameworks dialog with Libraries tab selected

Frameworks dialog with Configuration tab selected

After setup and configuration, code-completion within facelets still doesn't work.
Showing editor with failed code-completion

Am I missing something? Am I going about this in the wrong way?

Solution

Here's what I ended up doing:

  1. I switched from a Standard Java project to a Web project (duh!)
  2. I took Awano's advice and switched the MIME type for xhtml files back to text/xhtml.
  3. I added the tld file from the facelets site to the meta-inf directory in the jsf-facelets.jar and included it in my project.

  4. I added the rendered attribute to the fragment tag in the jsf-ui.tld file. It was missing for some reason:

    <attribute>
    <name>rendered</name>
    <required>false</required>
    <rtexprvalue>false</rtexprvalue>
    <description>Renders the contents of this tag if the attribute resolves to true.</description>
</attribute>
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I don't do Netbeans, so I have really no idea. But similar problem exist in Eclipse. All you need to do in Eclipse is to associate *.xhtml files with the JSP editor (which by default only runs on *.jsp, *.jspx and so on). See if similar setting exist in Netbeans. Good luck. – BalusC
Thanks for the suggestion. I fiddled with changing the associated mime type, but that had no affect on code completion. (It did affect tag matching and code formatting, though.) – braveterry
if BalusC's solution doesn't work, you might take a look here stackoverflow.com/questions/2136218/… - it is about eclipse, but the linked articles/tld are probably applicable to netbeans as well. – Bozho
Bozho, I took a look at the question you linked to. I tried manually referencing the TLD files, but it had no affect. I'll keep poking around. – braveterry

1 Answers

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Did you add the facelet libs in the libraries of your project properties? Otherwise check that in Tools / Options / Miscellaneous / Files that xhtml is associated with MIME XHTML (text/xhtml).