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NetBeans used to do that but with the deprecation of Woodstock (rather merging with ICEFaces) and with ICEFaces not supporting Visual Web Project it is difficult to choose NetBeans now [1].

Eclipse (the J2EE version) has a very basic version that provides drag and drop etc. of JSF controls.

So, I wanted to know which free IDEs (if any!) are there that provide good support for web development using JSF.

[1] http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/13622.page

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I'm really not a fan of it1 but Oracle JDeveloper has a JSF Visual Editor and is free to download (I wasn't aware of that).

1 Actually, I never used JDeveloper, only some poor customers did but it had many many flaws last time I checked it. Maybe Oracle did improve it since then.

Pascal Thivent
Thanks! I was aware that Oracle has an IDE of their own but I didn't know that it was free.Will give it a try.
Aayush Puri
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You can have a look at the JBoss Tool plugin for Eclipse.

romaintaz