If anybody uses a JSP editor for their JSF development but wants to use Facelets for the view technology, I've coded something that *might* be useful.
I personally use Bea's (formerly M7's) JSP/JSF editor eclipse plugin. Love it. It doesn't support Facelets. Since Facelets is so close to JSP syntax, having a process convert the files during the build process seemed like a reasonable approach. http://www.bigheadco.com/jsptofacelets It includes a maven plugin for converting the files during the build, as well as an eclipse plugin that will convert files when saved. If you're an ant user, you can get the source from sourceforge and add an ant target. Better yet, I can set you up on the sourceforge project and you can contribute. In order to get the eclipse plugin to work, I added a more general maven war builder eclipse plugin. It essentially copies war project output to the exploded directory when saved in eclipse (as opposed to running the maven war plugin on each edit). http://www.bigheadco.com/warplugineclipsebuilder This should work with other JSP editors. I've personally only used the Bea one. Well, and Exadel, but exadel has support for Facelets built in, so its kind of pointless, right? Comments welcome. -Kevin
