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Milestone 10 I created a new web project from existing sources. I had a small JSF web app I used for the project. It's very basic and not IDE dependant; we compile this test-app with an ANT script. It uses the standard EE setup for a JSF application with a WEB-INF folder and so forth. I called my project "ImApplication42NoAnt." This project descriptor does not match any package folder in my application. I got my new NB6 project compiling and creating the WAR file OK. I clicked on "Add new Visual Web page." The program hung for 10 minutes and I had to kill it. In my Web/SRC folder, it created 900+ additional folders. We had to write a special Java utility to recursively drill down and delete them; the path was too big for Windows Explorer to handle. I'm guessing it was trying to put a backing bean here but got stuck in some kind of infinite loop. For example, my app source folder initially looked like this: App-root/web/src ---> source doe under here. After experiencing the bug, my app source folder looked like this. App-root/web/src ---> ImApplication42NoAnt/src/ImApplication42NoAnt/src/ImApplication42NoAnt/src and so forth, 900+ levels deep. It also appears that the tool should have asked what package I wanted to put my backing bean in. It assumed the wrong package path. Because of this bug, my hard drive was temporarily corrupted, and I was unable to do builds against that project.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 108800 ***
Created attachment 53860 [details] New Web Project using existing Ant Setup Screen
Created attachment 53861 [details] New Visual JSF options for a web project using an existing ANT script.