The JSFToolbox Blog

The JSFToolbox team is pleased to announce that JSFToolbox 3.0, a suite of JavaServer Faces design and coding extensions for Dreamweaver, is now available. This release includes support for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Mac OS X, the ICEfaces open source Ajax framework, the Apache MyFaces Trinidad component library, and better performance and stability.

JSFToolbox also supports Facelets, JBoss Seam, Apache MyFaces Tomahawk, and standard JSF, so users can now choose from over 300 different UI components while developing with JavaServer Faces in Dreamweaver.

JSFToolbox extends the Dreamweaver design-time experience to JSF, including features such as managed bean code hints, message bundle support, live view, syntax auto-complete, drag-and-drop toolbars, visual tags, property inspectors, context-sensitive help, validation reports, and more.

To learn more about the JSFToolbox suite and how Dreamweaver can be used effectively for JSF design and development, please check out our podcast from the JSFOne conference.

The creative side of JSF user interface design is underrepresented in many books, technical articles and discussions.

I will be presenting this session at JSFOne in September to give some visibility to the design tools and techniques used by creative professionals, and will examine the sometimes surprising gap between what Web designers and Java developers consider intuitive in a JSF context.

Check out the official JSFOne website for more details.