Netbeans rocks, Eclipse sucks

With Eclipse, setting up a simple Web Application with JSF and deploying it to Wildfly is a long, frustrating struggle.

With Netbeans, it takes 10 seconds.

File / New Project, Java Web / Web Application, project name "WebApplication1", server : select Wildfly server, Java EE Version: Java EE 7 Web, context path: /WebApplication1, Frameworks: select JavaServer Faces, in the components tab select Primefaces (the first time iyou haveto wait 10 seconds while it fetches the dependencies "JSF library Primefaces not setup correctly..." )

Right click on the Project, Run... it will open http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/ and you are ready to go.


What Netbeans generates is:







BEWARE: to run on Wildfly 11, you should change the version of primefaces in pom.xml from 5.0 to 6.0, otherwise you get an error "wildfly This page calls for XML namespace http://primefaces.org/ui declared with prefix p but no taglibrary exists for that namespace"

The only issue I had with Netbeans 8.2 is that it's not compatible with Java 9, I had to edit netbeans.conf and change netbeans_jdkhome to point to JDK 8.

Incidentally, check out this AWESOME video on how to generate a Primefaces crud application from Entities with Netbeans

https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/javaee/maven-primefaces-screencast.html

You can simply forget that with Eclipse. A Total Eclipse of the Heart



"every now and then I fall apart
I don't know what to do and I am always in the dark
There is nothing I can do, a total Eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life"

hahaha