I have experienced this exact issue when copying Visual JSF components from one page to another, whether in Design or Edit view. As a matter of fact, if you attempt to compile, the build fails! Unfortunately, your SOL. I worked around this by rebuilding the layout in the new page, dragging and dropping manually. I know, it really sucks!

cayhorstmann wrote:
I have a JSF visual web page, and I copy/pasted something from another page into the JSP view. Seemed faster than drag-and-drop-and-drag-and-drop-and-drag-and-drop. But now the design view doesn't show that part. Neither does the navigator window. Am I hosed? Do I need to throw away the page and redo it from scratch? Or is there a way to force synchronization?
Thanks,
Chris