Composite components in an external JAR are not recognized in Netbeans

Question

I have packaged a number of composite components in a JAR. However, when using them in another project (using Maven), Netbeans editor puts red error lines under lines which

Answer 1

I have absolutely the same problem. In my case it depends on the /src/main/java folder. If it's exist (only in the project and not even in the jar) the project which includes this library shows the "No library found for namespace... " When i remove the "java" folder it works. But then my backing bean class is missed in the jar...

Tried with Netbeans 7.2 and 7.3, maven 2

Solution:

1. Generate a second project which contains the Java source files. (called: jsf-lib-java)
2. In jsf-lib project (your composite component project with xhtml) delete the "java" folder and all *.java sources.
3. add in the jsf-lib pom.xml following configuration:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>unpack</id>
        <phase>generate-resources</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>unpack</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <artifactItems>
            <artifactItem>
              <groupId>com.mycompany.project</groupId>
              <artifactId>jsf-lib-java</artifactId>
              <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
              <type>jar</type>
              <overWrite>true</overWrite>
              <outputDirectory>src/main/</outputDirectory>
              <includes>**/*.class</includes>
            </artifactItem>
          </artifactItems>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>

That's it. This will generate a "good" jar file with the required *.class files. So it's possible to "trick" Netbeans.

Now i work with this solution. It's a hack but didn't found a better solution.