CodingClues

Recently I stumbled across a problem with the rich:modalPanel component of the JBoss RichFaces component library, which didn’t want to show the data of a backing been.

Let’s assume the following scenario:
You have a DataTable with several rows. Each row contains a “See details…” button. This button will popup a modal panel using rich:componentControl and the panel is populated with data of a backing bean. This backing bean is filled with actual data by clicking our “See details…” button using a4j:actionparam

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If Eclipse complains that it cannot start JBoss (”Timeout waiting for JBOSS 5.0 to start. Server did not start after 50s.”) then try to set the timeout to a higher value. It can be done in the options:

Windows -> Preferences -> Server -> Server timeout delay

There are a lot of tips and hints out there on the internet, which describe how you could add support for Java Server Faces and Facelets to the Eclipse environment.
Mostly, they deal with adding code completion for JSF/Facelets tags and so on. There are some possibilities to achieve this, ranging from creating TLD files to using the JSP editor in Eclipse for the XHTML code of the Facelets pages.

But the “trick” I prefer is much more simple

You want to see it? Well, just download and install the JBoss Tools and you have it all!