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Bug 109916

Summary:	Visual Web Designer with a web project using an"Existing Ant Script"
Product:	obsolete	Reporter:	kidvid <kidvid>
Component:	visualweb	Assignee:	Peter Zavadsky <pzavadsky>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P2
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description kidvid 2007-07-16 22:10:01 UTC

There doesn't seem to be any way to activate the "Create new Visual Web JSF" option, when you set up a NetBeans project
using an "Existing Ant Sript."  There isn't any technical reason why this shouldn't be possible.  If necessary, a guide
could be supplied to assist the user in reconfiguring their own ANT script in order to do a proper compile of the new
Sun Rave JSF pages created using the Visual Web Designer.  However, even if no such guidance was supplied at this option
was treated as a "Do so at the risk that your project might not compile using your ANT script," then I feel that would
be acceptable.

The example web project I made had the SRC folder under the WEB folder, lateral to the JSF and WEB-INF folders.

My opinion is that this is a major usability problem.  When a person who downloads NetBeans for the first time and hooks
it up to their existing ANT-based project, can't use the Visual Web Designer (a major NetBeans feature), then they'll
probably un-install it an go back to Eclipse.  IMHO.

Comment 1 kidvid 2007-12-05 15:57:37 UTC

Please see issue:  108800

Apparently, this feature was added to NetBeans 6 final, but it doesn't work very well and has the ability to corrupt the
user's file system.