JSF Tutorials

Quite annoyed with the Java EE Tutorial's section on JSF. It assumes you're using NetBeans, and begins with having you setup the example using NetBeans without explaining anything. I've been struggling for a while in trying to get the example to work in Eclipse WTP, in vain. Why couldn't the examples have been done with just ANT instead of something IDE-specific?

I'm trying the tutorial from Exadel now. It's still IDE-specific but at least it's on Eclipse (Exadel Studio). It gives me the chance to evaluate Exadel Studio at the same time.

Is there a good tutorial out there that goes over the rudiments and best practices without being IDE-specific?

Eclipse Plugins for JSF

I found two Eclipse plugins for JSF: Exadel Studio and BEA Workshop for JSF. The Exadel plugin looks more interesting since they've recently partnered with Red Hat, which probably means good future support for JBoss Seam.

Since Exadel already comes bundled with WTP, I'm currently downloading a plain Eclipse to install Exadel on, so that it doesn't interfere with my current Eclipse-WTP installation.

I also just downloaded NetBeans and it's Visual Web Pack, just in case the Eclipse plugins don't workout. ;-)

One of the appealing things I've seen about JSF is it's support for drag-and-drop tooling. I'm hoping that one of the JSF tools will provide our team with efficiency without sacrificing elegance.