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Third-party component sets often require that an application be configured specially, e.g. through the specification of a servlet filter or initialization parameters. During rendering, the components may also perform checks of their context to ensure that it was configured correctly. Since the design-time "mock" servlet environment in Visual Web Pack does not model this data, the components cannot currently be used. Two enhancements are needed. First, in the design-time API. There should be methods for getting editable configuration file objects, or individual methods for getting/setting things like init parameters, filter definitions, etc., so that the design-time support for comp libs can inject configuration information safely. Second, the Rave design-time servlet container should register settings found in the project's web.xml file. It should also listen for changes to the file, and update itself accordingly. We should probably also extend this to the faces-config file, or at least certain parts (supported locales, for example).
This need to be dealt post NetBeans 6.0 release.