NetBeans To Include Some PrimeFaces CRUD Of Their Own

A few months ago, I was contacted by a NetBeans team member regarding the CRUD generator and possibly contributing to the NetBeans project. The idea that was pitched was to create a public API that would make integrating code generators such as this easier and less dependent on the NetBeans implementation. That is of course since many parts of the generator depend on internal non-API modules from NetBeans, and more importantly some depend on the implementation version. That means, the CRUD generator is not portable between NetBeans version and not even within a release as things might change during updates.

Naturally, I like the idea and signed a Third-Party Contributor Agreement with Oracle. A few more months have passed now without hearing anything from said developer. So I asked for a quick status update. In reply, I was told that current resources are still spent on squashing bugs and issues in NetBeans, but that they already had modified their own JSF Pages generator to accomodate PrimeFaces. And so, the next major release of NetBeans (8.0) will contain PrimeFaces CRUD functionality built-in, inspired by this project.

At this point, I am quite curious as to the level of NetBeans' adoption of the PrimeFaces pages this generator creates. Particularly, since I recently added the ability to segregate the include files into separate folders. If the CRUD application NetBeans will generate is on par or even better than the one generated by this module, I may decide to put this project to rest. I don't want to, but it wouldn't make sense to have to pieces of code doing the same thing. And keeping up with the various NetBeans versions is a real pain, especially when things break due to internal API changes on their end.

So what do you think? Should this project continue, despite the fact that NetBeans will introduce their own PrimeFaces CRUD? Let me know in the comments section.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of you developers out there who tried this module and found it useful for your projects.