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New Web project with JSF is not generated with template.xhtml by default (see issue 172828) which breaks JSf from Entity wizard. Wizard should create its own template.
JSF from Entity wizard already recreates template.xhtml if it is missing.
I just noticed that this was implemented on Thursday 24th - http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/1bf0d6f7a435 - and that's why it worked for me but not for Ian.