Adding debug information on JSF pages ------------------------------------- Key: FORGE-1547 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1547 Project: Forge Issue Type: Enhancement Components: Scaffold Affects Versions: 2.0.0.Final Reporter: Antonio Goncalves Assignee: Antonio Goncalves Labels: starter Fix For: 2.x Future JSF pages are hard to debug, so adding a {{ui:debug}} in the main template. The idea (as explained on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4049531/uidebug-tag-not-working-in-fac...) is to add a {{ui:debug}} and some config in web.xml so only the debugging shows up in development. So in the {{pageTemplate.xhtml}} we would add : {code} <h:body> <ui:debug rendered="#{initParam['javax.faces.FACELETS_DEVELOPMENT']}"/> <div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top"> {code} And in the {{web.xml}} : {code} <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_DEVELOPMENT</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param> {code} Then, once in any page, you just need to press CTRL+ SHIFT + D