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In a previous blog I showed how you may configure eclipse with FacesIDE and Tomcat plugins. This configuration gives you an IDE for JSF development.

In this blog we will use this configuration to build a first JSF application.

The application is simple. It asks you for your age, and then calculates it in dog years, based on the ever-true formula of manYears / 7.

However, this has enough JSF in it to show how eclipse, FacesIDE and SysDeo's Tomcat plugin join make for an adequate development platform.

FacesIDE plugin comes in very handy when you need to develop JSF applications.
However, when put into work, there are two changes you need to make by hand to the web.xml file it creates in the project structure.
This blog shows how to tweak the plugin so you don't need to make those changes manually every time you create a new JSF project.

This blog shows you how to configure an entirely open-source JSF development and test platform.

Eclipse can be easily set up to support JSF development with FacesIDE and Tomcat. The process is quite easy – if you have the right plugins.

In Eclipse architecture, plugins are additions to the basic platform. Actually, when you install eclipse, many plugins are already there for you under the hood. They serve as extensions, builts on the basic functionality provided by the platform.

If you want the basic eclipse to serve as a JSF development workbench, a good choice would be to add the FacesIDE plugin to it.