Adding a Custom Project Environment

Any environment simply consists of a collection of Jar files. You can create any number of custom environments which consists of any number of Jar files.

Here is how you can do it for JSF.

1. Select Window/Preferences/Exadel/JSF/JSF Environment. You will see all existing environments for creating JSF projects.

2. Click Add to add a new environment.

   

3. When you click Add, enter the following information:
   • Name - enter the name of the new environment
   • Template Location - leave the default value. This environment will be saved under your workspace. If you upgrade Exadel Studio plug-in, you will keep all custom settings
   • Core Library - Select one core library (See Library Sets for more information)

   

4. Once you have that in place, just add as many library sets to this project as you need. When you create a project based on this environment, all Jar files from the library sets will be copied to project WEB-INF\lib directory.

   

5. Switch to Project Templates tab and click Add. Before you can use the new environment, you need you add at least one project template to it. You can use any existing project as a template or create a new one.

   

6. You can click Next to configure the template further or just Finish. In this step, you can select what directories to include in the template

   

7. Go back to create a new JSF project. When you select the new environment, you will also be able to select the template.