Migrate NetBeans Visual Web pack applications to NetBeans IDE 6.0

This document helps you migrate your NetBeans Visual Web Pack application to the NetBeans IDE's Web support.

To use this tutorial, you will need to install NetBeans IDE 6.0 and choose either the Web & Java EE or the all installation package. For more information about manipulating the NetBeans IDE, see the Support and Documentation page on the NetBeans Web site.

The Visual Web JSF Backward Compatibility Toolkit provides supplemental libraries that visual Web designers need to support projects based on J2SE 1.4 or Java EE 1.4. This includes:

JavaServer Faces 1.1 Reference Implementation (RI)

RowSet Reference Implementation (RI)

Jax-RPC Library from JWSDP 1.6

These libraries are not open source, and are therefore distributed as separate NetBeans plug-ins. To install these plug-ins, do the following:

From the main menu, click Tools > Plugins. This will open the plugin manager.

On the Available Plugins tab, select the check box next to Visual Web JSF backwards compatibility Kit, and then click Install.

Migrating user Settings

Before you start NetBeans IDE 6.0, be sure to close all instances of NetBeans and the Java Studio Creator IDE. When you install the Netbeams IDE 6.0 WEB support, you will be asked to migrate the settings the first time you run the IDE, as shown in Figure 1. Click Yes in the Confirm Import Settings dialog box to migrate the settings.

Figure 1: Confirm Import Settings dialog box

If you want to open a project that was developed in another version of the IDE and you did not import the user settings for that version, follow these steps:

Close NetBeans IDE 6.0

Rename the user directory name of the version of the IDE that you do not want to migrate.

Remove the user directory for NetBeans IDE 6.0. To view the location of the user's directory, select Help > About, as shown in Figure 2 below.