# Netbeans 6.5 With Visual Ice Faces - Installation, Test, EJB 3 Integration, An Error And Solution

The installation of icefaces is very smooth. You don't even have to restart Netbeans 6.5 (and this without OSGI :-)) . It takes few minutes / seconds - it depends on your bandwidth (9MB). IceFaces installation enhances the web-project type, so you will get two additional choices in the "Frameworks" tab: ICEFaces and Visual Web ICEFaces. The latter choice let you design your page visually with drag and drop vrom pallette etc. - very much like woodstock. The first choice is for source editor only. Don't select both frameworks - it will not work...First impressions:Visual Designer works really good - as already known from Woodstock.Page Flow designer works.EJB 3 injection of Stateless and Stateful Session Beans into managed beans works.Deployment to Glassfish v2 works.Declarative Data Binding (Value Binding) between ICEFaces components and JavaBeans (JPA-entities) works."Start Page" support doesn not work. It generates in the web.xml something like this:    <welcome-file-list>        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>        <welcome-file>faces/Page1.jsp</welcome-file>    </welcome-file-list>This will cause an error in  case you will try to "Run" the application. java.lang.NullPointerException        at com.sun.faces.renderkit.RenderKitImpl.createResponseWriter(RenderKitImpl.java:169)        at com.icesoft.faces.renderkit.D2DRenderKit.createResponseWriter(D2DRenderKit.java:82)        at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:168)        at com.icesoft.faces.application.D2DViewHandler.renderView(D2DViewHandler.java:151)        at com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.faces.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:283)        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106)        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251)        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144)        at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245) Solution: Just delete the section <welcome-file-list> and change the Page1.jsp into Page1.iface. The URL should looks like: http://localhost:8080/[WAR_NAME]/Page1.iface. If you want to "Run" your application, put the Page1.iface (or your actual welcome page) into the Relative URL box in the Properties (Run) of your project.I lost about one hour for finding a solution for the problem above, so my overall impression is just good and not very good :-).