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Completed enhancements to the Tag Registry and Component Tree Views
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See here for information on Alternative View Handler support
Tag Registry View
The Tag Registry View allows a JSF user to browse the JSF tags declared in each project including information about what components, converters and validators they create at runtime.
Component Tree View
The Component Tree View allows a user to browse a design-time approximation of what a view (i.e. a JSP page or Facelet XHTML) will look like at runtime. This component tree will also be used by an increasing number of component-based features in the future.
Hyperlink support in WPE's Source tab
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The Source tab of the Web Page Editor (WPE) supports Hyperlink on a
Managed Bean variable, Managed Bean property and Managed Bean method
referenced in the Expression Language(EL) of a tag-attribute. Users
can
(Ctrl+click)
on the hyperlink to navigate to the source of the Managed Bean.
Hover Help support in WPE's Source tab
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The Source tab of the Web Page Editor (WPE) provides Hover Help on
all symbols defined in the Expression Language(EL) of a
tag-attribute including references to Managed Beans and Resource
Bundles.
Enhancements to Web Page Editor (WPE) Property Pages
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The tabbed property pages in the Web Page Editor (WPE) have been
enhanced. This change is important for adopters of the project. See
Enhancements to WPE Property Pages
for details.
Support for Apache MyFaces Trinidad
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Apache MyFaces Trinidad tags are now supported in the Web Page Editor, in source editors, and in the Properties view.
Improvements to EL content assist and hover help
New EL framework enhancements
Thanks to Xiaonan Jiang at IBM for driving new framework requirements and providing prototypes.
Decorative Variable and Property Resolvers
To better support the decorative nature of JSF variable and property resolvers, we have added the ability to register decorative design time resolvers to the default application manager. Decorative resolvers are called only if the runtime resolver that they are associated with is found in the configuration of the current web project. For more information see: here
Enhancements to symbol creation API
We have refactored several internal symbol creation methods and combined them with contributions by Matthias Fuessel and Xiaonan Jiang (IBM), to create a new set of extension points to simplify creation of common JSF symbols. See here for more details.
We have also made the symbol creation methods available on a new factory called JSFSymbolFactory.
New EL validation preferences
New validation preferences for EL validation problems allow you to change the severity of type assignment problems between Error, Warning and Ignore.
