I've made a Composite Component and archived it in a *.jar file. My solution is based on this tutorial : How to package JSF2 composite component as distributable JAR and this question: Java EE6> Packaging JSF facelets (xhtml) and ManagedBeans as JAR.
Everything works fine but I can't used autocomplete in Eclipse to add attributes of Composite Component when I add it through *.jar file. When I add it manually, i.e. place code in resources/composite_components everything works fine.
I'm using RAD 8.5.5
Thank you in advance.
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I have started studying JSF and I would like to know what is the JAR to include within our classpath to start using JSF. Is it jsf-api or jsf-impl? Or we have to include both? And if it is both then why they are not merged?
I'll assume that you're not using a real Java EE application server like WildFly, TomEE, Payara, etc, but a barebones JSP/Servlet container like Tomcat which indeed doesn't ship with JSF out the box and you thus had to manually install it. Otherwise, all this fuss with JARs is unnecessary.
Is it jsf-api or jsf-impl? Or we have to include both?
You need both. The jsf-api.jar contains the API, which exist of almost only abstract classes and interfaces. It are the javax.faces.* types which you are importing and using in your code. The jsf-impl.jar contains the implementation, which exist of the real hard working code. The implementation is internally loaded via factories in API. It are the com.sun.faces.* classes which you are not supposed to import and use directly in your code. If you do, then you wouldn't be able to switch to a different JSF implementation, such as MyFaces.
And if it is both then why they are not merged?
There exist a merged JAR, the javax.faces.jar. You can pick this one instead of the two loose JARs.
See also:
Our JSF wiki page
JSF implementations and component libraries
Difference between Mojarra and MyFaces
In simplest terms, what is a factory?
How to properly install and configure JSF libraries via Maven?
I have a Spring 4.1.1, JSF 2.2.3, Primefaces 5.1 web application that run on Java 8 and Tomcat 8.
Everything worked perfectly until my colleague added the javaee-api-7.0 as a dependency for javax for ActiveMQ.
With this jar in, every ajax call doesn't submit data to the backend. For example filters on primefaces datadatable would always pass an empty value, ajax refresh wouldn't take into account processed fields, etc. If I remove the jar, everything start to work again.
Unfortunately the logs don't show any error, the output is exactly the same of when the jar is not included. I'm not sure also with which component the conflict is, I would assume JSF but I have no clue and I can't find any documentation online.
Everything worked perfectly until my colleague added the javaee-api-7.0 as a dependency for javax for ActiveMQ.
You're indeed not supposed to have that JAR in webapp's runtime classpath. This kind of library is supposed to be already provided by the target Java EE container. Examples of Java EE containers are WildFly, GlassFish, Liberty, TomEE, etc. You've there however Tomcat, which is a barebones servletcontainer supporting from the huge Java EE API only JSP, Servlet and EL APIs, on which you have to manually install every other Java EE artifact, such as JSF and JMS.
The javaee-api.jar contains ALL Java EE APIs, including the JSF API (which is of 2.2.0 version). In your case, this one apparently got precedence in classloading over the JSF API version which you already had in /WEB-INF/lib. This will only result in "odd" behavior, because the loaded JSF impl version doesn't match the loaded JSF API version.
You need to solve it differently. You need to install JMS in its own API/impl JAR files, exactly like as you already did for JSF, and thus absolutely not via a "global" javaee-api.jar file. In case of ActiveMQ, the JMS API is available in activemq-all.jar. Use that one instead. It covers everything needed in order to get ActiveMQ to run on Tomcat.
See also:
how to include javax.jms.* in eclipse?
How do I import the javax.servlet API in my Eclipse project?
I have made a jsf 1.1 portlet in weblogic 10.3, but in one scenario I need tomahawk library help. I just dropped the jar file and supporting ones in lib folder in WEB-INF in my portal application, but when I hit the url it gives me error of NoClassdef..... exception for classes in tomahawk jar and jsp compilation fails.
I am new to weblogic, I'll really appreciate if someoe can suggest what I might be doing wrong.
The setup is that whole application goes as ear. Ear contains app-inf and weblogic specific xml files, main portal web application goes as war inside this ear. I am using workshop that ships with weblogic portal 10.3. Well this project was migrated from weblogic portal 9.3.
Note: I dont want to but this jar in domain/lib, when I did so I dont know why it loaded my application and all the class defined in servlet startup with load-on-startups got fired well before time and none of the classes were found by server.
Jsf libraries currently used are in shared mode.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError means the runtime version of the class in the classpath is not the same as that at compile time.
Note: it's not a ClassNotFoundException.
Your problem is in fact multiple versions of the class being found.
Also, JSF 1.2 libraries are bundled with Weblogic server, so it can cause this exception if one of those classes is again added into the WEB-INF/lib. Which is the exact class on which the error is thrown, do you have multiple versions of Tomahawk lying around in WEB-INF and domain/lib?
Remove the extras and keep one in WEB-INF/lib only.
Update:
The docs state that Separate JSF 1.2 and JSTL 1.2 JAR files and implementation JAR files are also provided in the WL_HOME/server/lib/api.jar file.
Check for that class javax/faces/webapp/UIComponentELTag in this jar.
I still think you should use the weblogic.xml setting to force the WEB-INF/lib class to get loaded in preference to that in server/lib with
<container-descriptor>
<prefer-web-inf-classes>true</prefer-web-inf-classes>
</container-descriptor>
Being new to weblogic and infrastructure I messed up with different versions. Figured out it was just because of incompatible jars.
JSF 1.1 and websphere 6.1 was working properly in my case. Once I deployed that to a websphere 7 server, I received the following error -
Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory: javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactoryat javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:270)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.init(FacesServlet.java:164)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:358)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.init(ServletWrapperImpl.java:168)
Not sure what it means, I have enabled JSF1.2 as project facet in the RAD but still keep getting the above error message and none of my jsf files are working.
EDIT
After following BalusC's comment, I see the following directories are lookup by the code (this is the o/p of url.getPath())
/C:/IBM/SDP/runtimes/base_v7/profiles/AppSrv01/properties/
/C:/IBM/SDP/runtimes/base_v7/properties/
/
/C:/IBM/SDP/runtimes/base_v7/java/lib/
/C:/IBM/SDP/runtimes/base_v7/lib/
/C:/IBM/SDP/runtimes/base_v7/deploytool/itp/plugins/com.ibm.etools.ejbdeploy/runtime/
/C:/IBM/SDP/runtimes/base_v7/installedConnectors/sib.api.jmsra.rar/
/C:/IBM/SDP/runtimes/base_v7/installedConnectors/wmq.jmsra.rar/
/C:/DETSphere10/DET_FALL9.0/DETEJB/classes/
/C:/DETSphere10/DET_FALL9.0/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/DETWEB/
There is no jsf impl in among these directories. Now I am more confused as the original lib should be present under c:\IBM\SDP\runtimes\base_v7\plugins !!
This is a typical error when there are multiple different versioned JSF libraries in the classpath. Websphere ships with builtin JSF libraries. If you'd like to use the webapp-supplied JSF libraries, then you need to set the classloading policy to module after deploying. This usually defaults to application which means that the webapp libraries are loaded by the main classloader. The main classloader may happen to have loaded the JSF API library. When its version is different from the JSF IMPL library in the webapp, then you may receive this kind of errors.
Update to help with nailing down the root cause better here are 2 suggestions:
You can reveal all used classpath roots on the local disk file system as follows:
for (URL url : Collections.list(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResources(""))) {
System.out.println(url.getPath());
}
Execute this in ServletContextListener#contextInitialized() or so.
(eventually after finding that out), install WinRAR, associate it with JAR file type and use its file-search facility to search for a JSF specific file like FacesContext.class and FacesContextImpl.class so that you can find all JAR's which contains the JSF API/impl. You can find out the exact JSF version by extracting the JAR and reading the MANIFEST file.
You need to keep the JSF JAR's (icu4j.jar and jsf-ibm.jar if you are using IBM's component library) in your /WEB-INF/lib folder.
I have problems running JSF in an OSGi environment. I am using jetty web container and equinox to provide the OSGi functionality. The structure of my application is as follows:
The first bundle has all the JSF libs, web.xml and a config.xml. It looks as the following:
bundle1
----src/main/java
-------de/package
----------Activator.java
----------JSFResolver.java
----src/main/resource
------ WebContent
----------META-INF
-------------face-config.xml
-------------web.xhtml
----------start.xhtml
-----------include.xhtml
----libs (containing all JSF required Jars)
The structure of the second bundle is as follows:
bundle2
---src/main/java
------de/package
----------Bean.java
---src/main/resource
------META-INF
---------face-config.xml
------WebContent
---------index.xhtml
When running the application of equinox, the bundle1 is the main bundle where all the browser requests are sent to. In the second bundle, the index.xhtml file can be retrieved the by first bundle upon request. The index.xhtml in bundle 2 gets its values and properties from the 'Bean.java' in bundle 2. The problem comes when i request the 'index.xhtml', the Bean.java class is not found. I think this is because the class loader of bundle1 cannot find it, it has no knowledge of it. So i would like to ask if anyone knows how to solve this problem. If so please do assist me, i have tried all the possibilities i had..
Is it in fact possible to have JSF run on multiple bundles using the same FaceletsContex? Can i be able to have seperate faces-config.xml files in each bundle, which can all be connected other faces-config.xml in other bundles? Can anyone please provide me a solution. Sample code would help.
If any one is interested in the answer, in this case, the faces-config.xml is of no use. So i had to use the plug-in.xml file to register all my beans across all plug-in projects. I created an extension point in the main plug-in, which other plug-ins could register their Beans as extension. I had to override the managedBean class of JSF for it to be able to read the bean properties from extension point rather than from the faces-config.xml.
So during runtime, the application reads all extensions registered in the managedBeans extension point, and then creates all the required bean instances from all plug-ins. Therefore the error will no longer be there. If anyone wants to implement JSF in such a structure, you should know that almost all the functionality in the faces-config.xml will have to be moved to the plug-in.xml of the plug-ins, this includes the navigation rules aswell. One has to do alot of customizations but at the end, you get a nice modular JSF application running on equinox, without having to embed it in a .WAR file.. which seems to be very advantageoous.