Used JBDS to look at the view.xhtml.ftl file under jbdevstudio\jboss-eap\seam\seam-gen\view. The FreeMarker site indicates that JBDS has a plugin for eclipse that can do this, so I figured I would see if it worked using file>open, as I could not see a FreeMarker view.

JBDS could not open the file and gave an error message, referencing a log entry.

The edit window shows a blue horizontal line and the word ERROR. The tab at the bottom reads "Source" The tab at the top has an icon showing a page with the overlay <FM> and reads "view.xhtml.ftl

Same thing with other ftl files I tried to open, in the same directory or in the Seam 2.0.1GA\seam-gen\view directory.

The log entry follows:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 4 2 2008-04-13 17:17:44.690
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.ui.workbench".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.freemarker.model.ItemSet.<init>(ItemSet.java:56)
at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.freemarker.editor.Editor.getItemSet(Editor.java:271)
at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.freemarker.outline.OutlineContentProvider.getElements(OutlineContentProvid
er.java:63)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.getRawChildren(StructuredViewer.java:937)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ColumnViewer.getRawChildren(ColumnViewer.java:693)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.getRawChildren(AbstractTreeViewer.java:1298)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.getRawChildren(TreeViewer.java:378)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.getFilteredChildren(AbstractTreeViewer.java:615)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.getSortedChildren(AbstractTreeViewer.java:581)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer$1.run(AbstractTreeViewer.java:778)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:67)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.createChildren(AbstractTreeViewer.java:755)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.createChildren(TreeViewer.java:627)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.internalInitializeTree(AbstractTreeViewer.java:1463
)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.internalInitializeTree(TreeViewer.java:816)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer$5.run(AbstractTreeViewer.java:1446)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.preservingSelection(StructuredViewer.java:1368)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.preservingSelection(TreeViewer.java:390)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.preservingSelection(StructuredViewer.java:1330)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.inputChanged(AbstractTreeViewer.java:1435)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ContentViewer.setInput(ContentViewer.java:251)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.setInput(StructuredViewer.java:1606)
at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.freemarker.outline.OutlinePage.createControl(OutlinePage.java:85)
at org.eclipse.ui.views.contentoutline.ContentOutline.doCreatePage(ContentOutline.java:135)
at org.eclipse.ui.part.PageBookView.createPage(PageBookView.java:399)
at org.eclipse.ui.part.PageBookView.partActivated(PageBookView.java:741)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartListenerList$1.run(PartListenerList.java:72)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:37)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:857)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartListenerList.fireEvent(PartListenerList.java:57)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartListenerList.firePartActivated(PartListenerList.java:70)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartService.firePartActivated(PartService.java:73)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartService.setActivePart(PartService.java:171)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPagePartList.fireActivePartChanged(WorkbenchPagePartList.java:5
6)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartList.setActivePart(PartList.java:126)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.setActivePart(WorkbenchPage.java:3402)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.activate(WorkbenchPage.java:611)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditorBatched(WorkbenchPage.java:2748)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2651)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.access$13(WorkbenchPage.java:2643)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$10.run(WorkbenchPage.java:2595)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:67)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2590)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2574)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2557)
at org.eclipse.ui.ide.IDE.openEditorOnFileStore(IDE.java:1090)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.actions.OpenLocalFileAction.run(OpenLocalFileAction.java:105)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.actions.OpenLocalFileAction.run(OpenLocalFileAction.java:75)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PluginAction.runWithEvent(PluginAction.java:256)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WWinPluginAction.runWithEvent(WWinPluginAction.java:229)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.jav
a:546)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:490)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:402)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:938)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3682)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3293)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2389)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2353)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2219)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$4.run(Workbench.java:466)
at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:289)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:461)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:106)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:169)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.j
ava:106)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:76)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:363)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:176)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:508)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:447)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1173)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1148)