+1 facelets support is very important and from what I heard will probably be included in future versions of JSF.

Totally agree.

JSF support in the JSP editor is nice, but the whole JSP approach to JSF is cumbersome, and facelets fixes nearly everything that's broken.

I wasn't willing to use JSF until I tried out Facelets. It's very exciting stuff, and it's coming from within Sun. I was skeptical at first, but Jacob Hookom has done fantastic work on it. Once we prove it out a bit more, we will probably start using it for all java web development. Now if we could just get some tool support...

Regarding what that tool support would look like, our main priority would be XHTML support and code completion on tag libraries (which should be relatively easy).

I used it for all of 10 minutes yesterday.

You need to add support for this, please.

+1 for facelets from me too

We would appreciate facelets support in Myeclipse.
At the time beeing we must use 2 tools.
Another product for the GUI with facelets
Myeclipse for the server side and Myeclipses UML Tool
+4
Ciao,
Carsten

+1 for facelets

I have not used it yet so I can't comment on that.

Facelets support should include tag completion and context assist, of course (list of attributes when you start a tag, list attribute values if they are an enumeration). It's also very important to support EL (offer bean names/methods, etc). It's imperitive that the various template mechanisms be supported intelligently in the editor (offer file names in the src/template attributes, and EL should list not only managed beans but also attributes used when invoking the tag file).
For instance, if a page calls a custom tag file with:
<b:customTag passedValue="cheese"/>
then EL assist in the custom tag file should offer the passedValue attribute in addition to managed bean names.

On that note, context assist that supports custom tags and custom tag files would be nice.

If you have a chance, read Rick Hightower's JSF blog entries as he articulates a lot of interesting uses for facelets that should be properly supported in any facelets oriented XHTML editor ( http://jroller.com/page/RickHigh ).

+4 votes from my company. It is the single most important improvement I like to see in MyEclipse at present

ciao

So... what did your management say? You've got 10 licenses at stake from my company since we have decided to move to facelets and Exadel studio supports it.

The tenative plan is to support XHTML and Faclets in the 5.x release stream (no release commited to yet). If your company absolutely needs that support right now then Exadel Studio may be the better choice for your development team at the moment. We appologize for this inconvenience, we know switching between tools can be a real pain and would much prefer to keep you as customers if possible, but there are a lot of requests on our plate right now that we are delivering on in addition to the huge amount of work that will go into 5.0 to restructure the ME platform to really open us up to a lot of enhancements moving forward.

Facelets support with code-assist would be very helpful for the development teams at our organization. 5.x release? Bummer... How far out is that?

Our organization has been using JSF for the past year and we recently started using Facelets. It has made JSF development much easier over the JSP method, so we are anxiously awaiting Facelet and code assist support in MyEclipse.

Another vote for facelets support

count +2 for my company and my client

+9 (seven developers and two for me)