NB 6 Visual Web Milestone 8 Features

Theme for this milestone (As yet uncommitted)

The following features are in M8:

• Visual Web capability integrated with the standard NetBeans web project type as a web project Framework.
• Add a visual page to a "non-visual" project simply by selecting JSF Visual pages from the file templates dialog. See project spec for details
• Visual Web Application project no longer listed in the Create Project Wizard.
• Import Creator 2 projects that do NOT reference web services, EJBs, or portlets. Migrating projects that contain data sources and library references from Creator 2 userdir and VW 5.5 is not supported.
• Component Data Binding for databases via D&D from Runtime Tab with the exception of views. Data source node in Application Outline
• SQL Query editor - full functionality
• DataSource Alignment - includes removing context.xml from userdir in favor of storing DS references in project
• Common Page Flow Editor for NetBeans - Ability to link pages, but not via buttons. Button linking in M9
• JDBC resource configuration during deployment - includes automatic configuration of web.xml and sun-web.xml deployment descriptors
• Migrate Visual Web Java modeler to Retouche Phase II - except specific support for Nav editor
• Migrate Visual Web refactoring to new Refactoring APIs - feature parity or better compared to Creator/Shortfin

The following features will NOT make it into M8:

• Services palette
• Visual Portlet Builder
• Visual Data Binding for web services
• Visual Data Binding for EJBs
• Visual CSS editor
• D&D from VIEWS node in Runtime Tab