Eclipse JSF content assist not working

Question

I am trying to work with an (existing) JSF Project in the current Eclipse (Kepler SR 1). Sadly Eclipse is ignoring the links between JSF/JSP pages and ManagedBeans (via faces-config.xml). I cannot CTRL-Click on a #{myBean.someValue} (inside a tag attribute) and I dont get any autocompletion assist when i hit CTRL-Space inside #{}.

The project is using somewhat ancient library versions - maybe that is a problem?

• JavaEE 5
• Dynamic Web Module version 2.4
• JSF 1.1
• BEA WebLogic 10.0 as target runtime

I tried all the guides on stackoverflow and created a dummy project as described in the JSF Tooling User Guide but none helped. Any help appretiated!

Copybook

Do you have the JSF facet enabled? Anyway, I don't know if that's possible even with newest JSF versions, not at least for me. I get the link to the bean when crtl+click, but not autocompletion for its methods... (having declared them using annotations instead of xml). – Originally

The JSF facet is enabled. I tried disabling and enabling but that doesnt change anything. – Copybook

I think autocompletion is not possible. You can achieve the ctrl-click utility but this will drive you to the faces-config reference, later on you'll have to click there on the managed bean's full qualified name and this will lead you to the java class. I find it more useful to know which class is already the assigned to the managed bean and going to it through type search. – Originally

Did you try install the jboss-tools plugin ? – Boyla

I did not because the project is not using jboss - its a WebLogic setup. Should I nevertheless try ? – Copybook

Try it, there is better content assist then in the plain XML editor. Never mind you doesnt use the jboss app server. – Boyla

Answer 1

I had the same problem with Kepler and solved the problem by

1. installing JBoss Tools
2. Right clicking the project > Configure -> Add JSF capabilities

Hope that helps others, too.

Neurophysiology

I have never installed the JBoss tools as my scope moved on, but as the only answer and the positive feedback it deserves to be accepted :) – Copybook

I had a clean install of Eclipse and forgot to install JBoss tools. While the Eclipse Enterprise Java Developer Tools seem to have shown some improvement, they fail all the way here – Ingle

Answer 2

I had to uninstall IceFaces plugin to get the autocomplete of JBoss Editor to work.

a kind of interference...

JSF 1.1 IceFaces 1.8 ( but without plugin) Eclipse Mars

Cardiff