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NetBeans Visual Web FAQ
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Table of Contents
VWP Components
Visual Web Application
- Where can I find general information about Visual Web Application
- How do I create my own page layout
- How do I create own Page layout plugin
- Where do I down load the Predefined Page Layout module
- Where can I download a Woodstock Theme Builder
- How do I quickly recolour the default theme
- How do I change the default new-page layout from Grid to Flow
- How can I create a web service from wsdl 2.0
Components
- General
- Where can I find a good overview of all the components?
- Where can I find the tutorials for the built in VWP Components?
- Why would I use the immediate setting on components like dropdown?
- How can I include MByte characters in a url used by a component?
- Does the Visual Web Pack support Cut/Copy/Paste functionality with components?
- JSF components reflect styles correctly when set on the component, but not when inherited from the page body. Is there a workaround?
- How can I set locale for VWP components?
- Why do I get 'cannot find symbol' error message while trying to access a component?
- Input Components
- Calendar: How can I prevent the dateFormatPatternHelp from showing at runtime?
- Calendar: How do I extract DAY_OF_MONTH from the Calendar component?
- Calendar: Why do I get Unknown Format error when committing my Calendar value to my DB?
- TextField: How do I change a TextField value when a event occurs?
- TextField: How do I get textField to forget its previous value?
- TextField: How do I set the Top/Left properties of a textField at runtime?
- FileUpload: Why does File Upload component fail when the label property is used?
- FileUpload: How do I use the File Upload component?
- Output Components
- How do I use the page alert component?
- Message Group: How can I force messageGroup to NOT display component errors?
- Action Components
- Button: Why does button component render with incorrect width on IE7?
- Button: How can I disable a button after a user clicks on it?
- Button: How can I reset my form by a button like html reset button?
- Breadcrumb: How can I dynamically generate and add a set of links to a Breadcrumb on my jsf page?
- Hyperlink: How can I configure a hyperlink to download a file?
- Image: Why do my images fail when the url has MBYTE characters in it?
- Layout Components
- Page Fragment: Why can't I drag a page fragment into another component?
- Page Fragment: How can I do a dynamic include of a page fragment?
- Page Fragment: How do I use Virtual Forms within a Page Fragment?
- Page Fragment: How can I use Page fragments to layout a page with header,footer,Nav & body?
- Why do I get com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.ApplicationException when including a page fragment?
- TabSet: How do I change the styles of a TabSet?
- Group Panel: How can I dynamically add components to a group panel?
- Grid Panel: How do I add a header and footer facet to grid panel?
- Grid Panel: How can I pad grid panel columns with blanks?
- AJAX Sample Components
- How do I get import component libraries and add them to the Palette?
- Why can't I create a web application in NetBeans 6.x with Ajax Sample Components
- I can use the components of RichFaces (Ajax) integrated with the visual web JSF?
- Table Components
- How do I use POJOs with Table Component
- How do I use JPA with Table component
- How to create a JSF page wich filter a Table?
- How to Configure the Number of Rows displayed in a Table?
- How can I detect which radio button was clicked in a Table?
- How can I determine which checkbox has been checked in a table?
- How would I show multiple columns in a dropdown?
- How can I iterate through a table to create a sum for a column?
- How can I dynamically create a table component?
- How do I make a table work like a multi-column check box?
- How can I set the colors of the text of a particular row or column in a table?
- How can I set a different tooltip for each staticText field in a basic table?
- How do I align numeric keys to the right in a table?
- Is there a way to display a two dimensional array in a table?
- How do I create rowset for table in specific page, not in SessionBean?
- How can I create a table where only one row can be selected?
- How can I show different types of components in a column of a data table?
- Selection Components
- AddRemove: How do I change labels on Add Remove Component's buttons to something else?
- Checkbox: How can I determine which checkbox has been checked in a table?
- Checkbox: How can I report (JasperReport) only the checked rows from a table?
- Dropdown: How can I use a dropdown to navigate to another page?
- Dropdown:How do I set the width of the dropdown?
- Dropdown: How would I populate dropdown with a directory listing?
- Dropdown/Converter: How do I get dropdown to recognize my DateTime converter?
- RadioButtonGroup: How do I display a radioGroup in one row?
- RadioButton: How can I detect which radio button was clicked in a Table?
- How do I get the selected/highlighted values of the AddRemove component from the browser at runtime?
- Standard Components
- Converters and Validators
- Validator: How can I specify an internationalized validator message?
- How do I conditionally validate fields and ignore others on submit?
- Data Providers and Binding
- Using a Postgres DB I drag and drop a table onto a drop down box. The rowset and dataprovider are created, but the binding does not work correctly. It does not list the columns available to choose from. Why is that?
- How can I use a dataProvider to create a basic input form for saving user data?
- Processing and Lifecycle
- Why does my session reinitialize after navigating 20 pages on Internet Explorer 6/7?
- Which should I use - the Form component or Virtual Forms?
- Advanced Topics
- How can I build my own Visual Web Pack components?
- How can I use an applet in Visual Web Pack?
- How do I obtain a client identifier for components that can be used in JavaScript?
- How do I add an applet package to my VWP Web Application?
- Portlets and Portal Servers
Migrating From Previous Versions
- Should I use Sun Java Studio Creator or NetBeans Visual Web Pack?
- Tips for migrating to NetBeans Visual Web 6.0
Database Access
- How to provide my own name for a data source
- How do I remove a data source?
- How could I use Store Procedure in CachedRowSet?
- Database connection errors
- How do I rename a JNDI data source? - John Baker's blog on this topic
- How to resolve data sources (e.g. HTTP 500 error when executing a database application) - John Baker's blog on this topic
- How can I restore the Travel Schema in the sample database?
- How do I enable the sample Travel database for MySQL in NetBeans IDE 6.0?
- Why does my DB2-based web application return deployment errors?
- How can I resolve oracle.sql.TIMESTAMP exceptions?
- Why do data source references disappear when I change them?
- How can I force the IBM DB2 drivers to run as Type 4 when using Sun Java System Application Server/GlassFish?
- How can I access SQL DATE fields using the Oracle JDBC drivers?
- Attempt to connect to remote database on Macintosh gets "SOCKS server has bad version" error. How can I resolve this?
- Will any JDBC driver work with Visual Web projects?
- What are the standard JDBC type conversions for rowsets?
- How can I update a database automatically with databound components?
- How can I obtain the number of rows returned for a rowset?
- Table layout gets confused with same column names on multiple tables. Am I missing something?
- What type of SQL queries are supported by the Query Editor?
- Connecting to the Microsoft SQL Server database using the Instance Name works in the IDE, but fails in the deployed application. What's the workaround?
- Which JDBC drivers are included?
- Why is dataprovider put in page bean by default, while rowset is put in SessionBean?
- Is CachedRowSetDataProvider thread safe?
- How do I use CachedRowSet and CachedRowSetDataProvider?
- How can I enable logging of CachedRowSet statements?
- How can I execute SQL scripts against an existing data connection?
- When to use CachedRowSet, CachedRowSetDataProvider and SQL query?
- When is a CachedRowSet executed?
- What happens in a CachedRowSetDataProvider.refresh()?
- What happens in a CachedRowSetDataProvider.release()?
- What happens in a CachedRowSetDataProvider.close()?
- Using standard comparison operators for Date type in Java DB
- When might I want to create a rowset in the ApplicationBean?
- Is there a visual tool to work with JavaDB (Derby) database - create schema, tables and so on?
- Using Oracle 10g JDBC Drivers
- "How do I track JDBC calls with MySQL?
- How can a Visual Web application delete a row in an Oracle table that has a CLOB column?
Working with Deployment Servers
- How do I start and stop the deployment server?
- How do I administer the deployment servers?
- How will web applications developed with Visual Web be deployed to servers other than Java System Application Server 9 (GlassFish)?
- What version of the Sun Java System Application Server is supported with NetBeans Visual Web Pack?
- How do I get more information from the deployment server if there is a problem?
- What should I do if Visual Web Pack hangs when I'm redeploying my application to Sun Java System Application Server?
- What should I do if the application server fails to start?
- How do I deploy web applications developed with Visual Web Pack to the Tomcat Servlet/JSP Container?
- How do I implement servlets in Visual Web Pack?
- How to manage sessions (HttpSession) in NetBeans Visual Web Pack?
- How do I configure my NetBeans Visual Web Pack project to run with the JBoss MyFaces implementation?
- How do I configure a Java Persistence API web application to work in JBoss?
- How do I perform theme switching and remote deployment on Windows platforms?
- Why don't Visual Web Pack applications run on the WebSphere Application Server 6.0?
- Does Sun Java System Application Server (GlassFish) come bundled with Sun JDBC Drivers?
- Can I deploy web service client web applications to Jakarta Tomcat 4.x?
Troubleshooting
- How can I tune Visual Web to work with Large Applications?
- How to resolve missing library references for Embedded Component Libraries?
- Where do I look for log file information for the IDE or the deployment servers?
- Deployment fails with HTTP Status 500 error. What should I do?
- Running application deployed on the AppServer fails with Out of memory: PermGen space. What should you do?
- Cannot do clean and build project. What should I do?
- JavaScript Error running webapplication with AjaxZone components. How to resolve the problem?
- Bad version number in .class file running webapplication. How to resolve the problem?
Working with Java Source Code
- When I drag code from source code onto the clips palette, the code is cut rather than copied.
- How do I use code clips in managed beans?
- How does code completion work in NetBeans Visual Web Pack?
- There are red x's and wavy red lines in my source code. What should I do?
- How can I access the SessionBean1 property from within my Java class?
- How can I restrict access to a page to authorized users only?
- How do I add managed bean properties in NetBeans IDE 6.0
