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Right now, Struts and JSF support is basically in the form of a) create skeleton project structure b) raw editing of struts-config.xml file, with right-click wizards for some basic 'Add' tasks c) raw editing of validation.xml and tiles-defs.xml (neither of which even have Struts right click menu options) All of these amount to a very basic level of support for Struts, with competing offerings (both commercial and open-source) providing much more productive visual editors for all of these (in some cases including even visual editing of the actual JSP pages and hooking the forms on them to Struts ActionForms). NB's level of Struts support is basic at best right now and far behind other tools. At the very least it should provide functionality equivalent to the Struts Console: http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/console/ (which BTW does not work with NB 5.0 and higher) or even better go a full visual route, similar to what MyEclipseIDE (and others) offer: http://myeclipseide.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-54.html http://myeclipseide.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-55.html In short, the developer should never have to edit the raw XML directly. They should always have some sort of visual designer on top of those files to present the data to them and allow modifications. Otherwise, developer productivity goes down the drain. P.S. Also, notice the total lack of Module support in Netbeans (i.e. there seems to be no functionality to have a struts app with multiple modules, i.e. with multiple module-specific struts-config.xml files).
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