Woodstock Components 4.1 Readme

What are the Woodstock Components?

The Woodstock components are a set of general purpose UI components that follow Sun Web Application Guidelines (to be supplied), and can be used for developing web applications and portlets at Sun. The components are built on the JavaServer(TM) Faces library, a JSR standard technology for building web components with Java.  The components will work in any web container that complies with Servlets 2.5, JSP 2.1, and JSF 1.2.  Currently, only GlassFish (Application Server 9) meets all these requirements.   See Software Requirements.

The Woodstock components are available in the Visual Web Pack plugin module for Netbeans 5.5, but can also be used standalone to build web applications.  This readme describes how to build and use the standalone Woodstock components.

Related Documentation

• Component Release Notes are included in the components jar (Woodstock.4.1-yyyymmddhhmm.jar).

• Javadocs for the components are created when you build the components.  An online version will be available in the future.


• TLD (tag library descriptor) documentation describes how to use the components, is included in the components jar.

Filing Bugs

Getting Started

• Java EE documentation: http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/index.jsp


• Tutorial: http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/index.html


• JavaServer Faces, Hans Bergsten, O'Reilly Media, Inc., ISBN: 0596005393

• Core JavaServer Faces, Geary and Horstmann, Prentice Hall PTR / Sun Microsystems Press, ISBN: 0131463055

Netbeans 5.5 is recommended because of its source level debugging, and full featured editor for building web applications.