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I want to write a plugin which will give me content assist support and work in JSF. I want it to work like the sample below :

  • I'll type "p:button action="#{
  • Then I'll press "Ctrl+Shift+Space" (for example)
  • It'll read the classes in my project and show them as a list in a pop-up window
  • Then I'll select one class. It'll be like below
  • h:button action="#{MyClass
  • When I type "." , It'll read the methods in my selected class and show them as a list in a pop-up window.
  • Then I'll select a method
  • Finally, It'll end like this "h:button action="#{MyClass.MyMethod}

Do you have any idea, how can i do this? Any suggestions?

tshepang
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One place to look for an example of content assist is to look at XText which already has this feature for DSL-like languages.

XText content assist

See the XText sources in its Git repository: by looking work the log message 'assist', you will have a list of commits all related to content assist implementation, like the XbaseProposalProvider.java class.

Sk8erPeter
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VonC
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The following are both screenshots from the Web Page Editor which comes with the Java EE edition of Eclipse.

wtp editor 1

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You can install it by adding the following mirror to your Eclipse repository. Change the name depending on what version you use. For Helios it is http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios.

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  • Thank you for your answers. I download and imported Web Page Editor. I can write my managed beans, It supports. But not all classes, there are some classes which are not managed beans. By the way when i use CTRL+SPace in "action" attritube, It just brings me managed beans , not the methods. – Birayalp SEN Aug 25 '11 at 07:35
  • you can also try [JBoos Tools](http://www.jboss.org/tools) which has some of the features of JBoss Developer Studio. It also has a page editor (the frist one I've seen with a working preview mode for JSF that understands templates), JBoss Tools also work good for richfaces development. Installation procedure is the same http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/helios/ though it comes with many many tools and you should try to select only the stuff you need. I'm also looking for a JSF editor that 'just works'. But I'm too lazy to put effort in my search. – unR Aug 25 '11 at 09:49