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1. Create web application with "Visual Web JSF" framework. 2. Add Drop Down List component to the page. 3. Open Java tab for the page. Result: There is no declaration of component in Java code. Therefore it is impossible to work with component in page bean.
This is by design... see http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=123536 and http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/OnDemandBindingAttribute