Cannot get Jsf tag outputText appear - jsf

I am new in JSF and EJB applications, hence I encounter problems even in the simple JavaEE applications. I am creating a simple JavaEE application in eclipse with JBoss with goal just to try some tags of JSF and the binding of them to Java Beans. I cannot find out why the following JSf code does not get nothing appear to the output page:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
<f:loadBundle basename="resources" var="msg" />
<head>
<title><ui:insert name="pageTitle">Page Title</ui:insert></title>
<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<h:body>
<h:outputText value="#{hello.world}" />
<h:outputText value="TTT" />
</h:body>
</body>
</html>
Not only the value hello.world coming form Bean, but a simple text "TTT" does not appear as well. The code of the Bean is:
#ManagedBean
public class Hello {
final String world = "World";
/**
* Default constructor.
*/
public Hello() {
}
public String getWorld(){
return "Hello" + world;
}
}
The facelets-config.xml file is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config version="2.1" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee /web-facesconfig_2_1.xsd">
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>hello</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.al.jsftest.Hello</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
</faces-config>
When I try the tag with a plain text, it comes out on the screen, but it does not work again with #{hello.world}, namely the binding to the Bean fails. As soon as I have a have I hint to how get the JSF tag give successfully output, I would appreciate hint regarding what I should take care of, in order to get the Bean bind to JSF?
UPDATE:
It seems to be the same problem with similar question, but my application is in Eclipse with JBoss, not in Netbeans with GlassFish. I add therefore my web.xml file, probably a modification in that is required, but I still cannot figure out it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee /web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
<display-name>JsfTest</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

You'll have to tell the server that your page should be loaded by the JSF-Servlet defined in your web.xml-file.
If I understand your sample right, you have a welcome file called index.xhtml which should be presented to the user with JSF by calling your website.
There is the problem:
All your pages won't be rendered by JSF unless you 'put them through' your defined JSF-Servlet.
Your servlet definition should look like this:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern> /* !important */
</servlet-mapping>
And therefore you have two (there are more for sure :) ) ways to tell the server to load your page with the JSF-Servlet:
Tell your welcome-file to be loaded with the JSF-Servlet
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>faces/index.xhtml</welcome-file> /* note the /faces/ prefix */
</welcome-file-list>
Extend your <url-pattern> inside the servlet-mapping
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern> /*tell JSF to render all pages with xhtml-extension*/
</servlet-mapping>
Ther shouldn't be any difference between Netbeans+Glassfish and JBoss+eclipse but you should check if the JSF libraries are loaded by the server.
One last note:
You're configurating your Beans via faces-config.xml, that'll do the job but since JSF 2.x you're able to do the same inside your class via annotations, e.g.
#ManagedBean
#SessionScoped
public class TestBean {
// your stuff here
}
For me this is much easier and more readable.
Hope this helped, have Fun!
Edit:
After your comments I've tested your set-up: nothing wrong!
At first I've got an error because of the <f:loadBundle basename="resources" var="msg" /> which was not defined in my set-up but after deleting this line everything worked fine.
Nevertheless, I've made a small typo in my first list item so please check this again.
Your xhtml-skeleton looked fine for me and works in my test, so there shouldn't be anything wrong either.
Please check the following:
Are the JSF-libraries loaded either by the server or your application
Are there anymore Servlets defined inside your web.xml-file
What's the detailed error message
Cheers!

I created a new Dynamic Web Project and I added this time index.xhtml file using a "Blank Facelet Page" as template instead of "Common Facelet Page". I changed the url-pattern in my web.xml file as *.xhtml and it finally worked either by the full path name on the browser (\index.xhtml) or not. Following the same process with a "Common Facelet Page", I didn't manage to do it work. Strange.
I have also noticed, that after selecting "Common Facelet Page" and clicking next, a list of libraries appears and the user has the option to check some of them. I didn't check anything, maybe I should have.

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javax.faces:jsf.js resource returns 404

I currently use mojarra javax.faces-2.2.8.jar and Apache Tomcat 6.0.26 Server.
I'm trying to add ajax behaviour to an input field(it's just for simplification).
Here is the simple facelets page(welcome.xhtml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:al = "http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/composite/AppearanceLibrary"
xmlns:h = "http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
xmlns:ui = "http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f = "http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core">
<h:head/>
<h:body>
<h:form>
<h:outputLabel for = "login"
value = "login" />
<h:inputText id = "login" value = "#{authentication.submittedLogin}">
<f:ajax execute = "login" render = "out" />
</h:inputText>
<h:outputText id = "out" value = "#{authentication.submittedLogin}" />
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
Here is the HTML output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head id="j_idt2"><script type="text/javascript" src="/JSFCars/javax.faces.resource/jsf.js.xhtml?ln=javax.faces&stage=Development"></script></head><body>
<form id="j_idt4" name="j_idt4" method="post" action="/JSFCars/welcome.xhtml" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<input type="hidden" name="j_idt4" value="j_idt4" />
<label for="j_idt4:login">login</label><input id="j_idt4:login" type="text" name="j_idt4:login" onchange="mojarra.ab(this,event,'valueChange','j_idt4:login','j_idt4:out')" /><span id="j_idt4:out"></span><input type="hidden" name="javax.faces.ViewState" id="j_id1:javax.faces.ViewState:0" value="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" autocomplete="off" />
</form></body>
</html>
This is my deployment descriptor:
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns = "http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation = "http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
id = "WebApp_ID"
version = "3.1">
<context-param>
<param-name>
javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD
</param-name>
<param-value>
client
</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext
</param-name>
<param-value>
resources.application
</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
<param-value>Development</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/welcome.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>welcome.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
Inside the browser's JavaScript console I got the message that this request http://localhost:8086/JSFCars/javax.faces.resource/jsf.js.xhtml?ln=javax.faces&stage=Development failed with 404(Not found). And as the result when I try to invoke the input field's ajax behaviour I get the following message: Uncaught ReferenceError: mojarra is not defined.
I'm aware that I should use <h:head> and <h:body>, otherwise the jsf.js wasn't included in first place. I've tried several browsers and the results were the same. Also I've tried the myfaces-core-2.0.2-bin jsf implementation.
I has found very similar question here. The problem was connected with the user defined filter which rejected the js request. But I
don't define any filters in the web deployment descriptor. Might there be any implicitly defined filter that blocks that request? Or are there any other ideas why something blocks that request?
Since the time I asked this question I installed "GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.1.2"
server and deployed the application on it(I included "javax.faces-2.2.8.jar" into project libraries,
but I think the server uses the internal "Mojarra 2.2.14" JSF implementation). As the way of testing
of the JSF implementation I tried using a template, a composite componet. <ui:composition>, <ui:define>
tags and custom library inclusion work as needed. authentication bean is created and perfectly initialized using faces-congig.xml. Then after it I removed everything not related to
the question and left only welcome.xhtml page. Again I got "404 Not found".
The solution is to remove everything connected to faces servlet from the web.xml.
The view of the rendered welcome.xhtml page after applying the solution
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/welcome.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
is very weird.... This would mean nothing but your welcome page is loaded via the Faces servlet. So the jsf.js which has an .xhtml extension in the name as well as you posted yourself isn't either. Fix the url pattern (or remove all the faces servlet references since the defaults are most often fine) and everything will work

Getting NullPointerException and FacesContext not found error in f:view tag [duplicate]

I don't know how to continue, but I always get the "java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find FacesContext" for my new JSF 1.2 web application. I'm sure it's just some configuration I can't find.
The exception occurs with the first f: or h: tag. Already with the important <f:view> at the beginning.
My index.jsp
<%# taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%>
<%# taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f"%>
<%#page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<f:view>
<html>
<head>
<title>MyWebsite</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
</head>
<body>
<div>MyContent</div>
</body>
</html>
</f:view>
My web.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
<param-value>.jsp</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>720</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
And then I also have a faces-config.xml that should reference myBean I want to use afterward in the body of the page:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<faces-config version="1.2"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">
<application>
<view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>
</application>
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>myClassName</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>
com.company.className
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
</faces-config>
What am I missing here?
java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find FacesContext
Thus, the JSF <f:xxx> and <h:xxx> tags are complaining that FacesContext cannot be found. The FacesServlet is the one responsible for creating the faces context. The faces servlet is invoked when the request URL matches its URL pattern, which is in your particular case *.jsf. So, when you open the index.jsp as http://localhost:8080/context/index.jsp, or are relying on the <welcome-file> setting, then you are not invoking the faces servlet and you would indeed get this exception.
You need to open the index.jsp as http://localhost:8080/context/index.jsf, or to set the welcome file entry to index.jsf in order to properly invoke the faces servlet, so that it can create the faces context which is required by the JSF components declared in the JSP page.
Note however that only fixing the welcome file isn't sufficient in this JSF 1.x + Tomcat environment. You also need to supply a physically existing, but completely empty index.jsf file next to the index.jsp file in the webcontent in order to fool Tomcat that index.jsf really exists as welcome file. It would otherwise show a 404 error because it checks the physical presence of the welcome file beforehand.
See also:
javax.faces.FacesException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find FacesContext
Unrelated to the concrete problem, I'm wondering why you're using JSP if you've apparently installed Facelets 1.x and registered its view handler. Facelets is far superior to JSP.

JSF facelet app not working in jboss AS 7

I am trying to set up environment for Java/JSF app in my windows 7 machine. I am using eclipse juno with Jboss AS 7 downloaded from the eclipse market. Also I am using JDK 1.7.
I created a very simple app containing just a h:outputLabel tag. Everything looks fine until deployed and run, but the tag doesn't render. What I mean to say is that I am getting a blank page.
The jars I included for JSF are : jsf-api-2.1, jsf-impl-2.1.0-b03.jar,jsf-facelets-1.1.14.jar.
And the usual commons and jstl jars.
There are no errors or any exceptions. Am I missing anything here? Please pardon me if its too simple but this is just taking too much time.
EDIT:
My auto-created faces-config xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
</faces-config>
My web xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
<display-name>test</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>NewFile.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Thanks in advance.
The jars I included for JSF are : jsf-api-2.1, jsf-impl-2.1.0-b03.jar,jsf-facelets-1.1.14.jar. And the usual commons and jstl jars.
There are quite a lot of mistakes right here. First of all, you don't need and even should not include the JSF jars. Those are already part of Java EE, which is implemented by JBoss AS 7.
Secondly, you definitely don't need and absolutely should not use the separate Facelets jar in combination with JSF 2.x. Facelets is already part of JSF 2.x.
You also should not include the JSTL jar. That one too is provided by Java EE/Jboss AS. If with commons jars you mean Apache commons, then those are fine but they are NOT needed for JSF. Include them only if you want to use them directly in your application code.
If you would need any of those jars (you don't, but suppose), it's also best practice to take the latest ones if you're just starting. From the version numbers it kinda looks like you just took a random old version. But again, you don't need any of those jars. They are provided by Java EE/JBoss AS 7.
My auto-created faces-config xml:
You don't need an empty faces-config.xml. If you're just starting, it might be better to remove everything you don't need. If there's later something you need to configure, you can always add it.
My web xml:
For JSF you don't really need to map the FacesServlet to the extensions you used. Those are already the default. If you leave out the entire web.xml, your Facelets (.xhtml) page can be requested by changing the .xhtml extension to .jsf or .faces. E.g. if your page is 'NewFile.xhtml' you can request it using localhost:8080/NewFile.jsf or 'localhost:8080/NewFile.faces` or 'localhost:8080/faces/NewFile.xhtml'.
Unfortunately, the only (IMHO) useful mapping is NOT provided as a default by JSF 2.1 and for that one you do need to add a mapping entry in web.xml:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>facesServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>facesServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Because your welcome page is NewFile.xhtml, you need either this *.xhtml mapping, OR you can remove the mapping entirely and change the welcome-file content to e.g. NewFile.jsf.
Update:
If the welcome page still doesn't show, there must be something else in your project that you either don't know about yourself or aren't showing us.
Try to start over with a very simple project and see if it works there:
In Eclipse, create a new Dynamic Web Project
Use project name: welcome and Target runtime: JBoss 7.1 Runtime
Delete WebContent/META-INF and WebContent/WEB-INF/lib
Copy the 3 files from http://arjan-tijms.omnifaces.org/2011/08/minimal-3-tier-java-ee-app-without-any.html to your project. Afterwards your workspace should look exactly like the one in the picture.
Add a WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml with the following content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>facesServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>facesServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>page.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
Double check you have exactly 4 files in your entire 'welcome' project, not more and not less.
Deploy your project to JBoss AS 7.1. To be sure, right click on the runtime server in the Servers view and click on "Clean..." Start your server and request localhost:8080/welcome or localhost:8080/welcome/.
I just tested this locally using the exact same steps I outlined, and it worked.

Richfaces 4 dynamically created rich components display as text instead of menus/links

I'm migrating from RF3.3.3, JSF1.2 and jboss 5 to JSF2/ RF4. We have a rich toolbar group with dropdown menus that is generated from a database table. I made the changes to web.xml, renamed the applicable components in the backing bean, but the toolbar will only show as text instead of dropdown menus and links.
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.enableControlSkinning</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.enableControlSkinningClasses</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.resourceOptimization.enabled</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.skin</param-name>
<param-value>blueSky</param-value>
</context-param>
menu.xhtml - included in a template.xhtml with h:head and h:body tags:
<h:form id="mnMenu">
<rich:toolbar id="tb" >
<rich:toolbarGroup>
<s:link id="menuHomeId" view="/home.xhtml" value="Home" propagation="none"/>
</rich:toolbarGroup>
<rich:toolbarGroup binding="#{menuQueries.myBarGrp}" />
</rich:toolbar>
<!-- account for jsf bug? bug DOESN'T WORK -->
<rich:toolbar rendered="false"/>
<rich:toolbarGroup rendered="false"/>
<rich:dropDownMenu rendered="false"/>
<rich:menuGroup rendered="false"/>
<rich:menuItem rendered="false"/>
</h:form>
from backing bean - this method creates the toolbar group, it originally looked like this:
public HtmlToolBarGroup getMyBarGrp()
{
this.myBarGrp = new org.richfaces.component.html.HtmlToolBarGroup();
for (CtsPermissionHierarchyAltV each : this.getMainMenuList()) {
this.myBarGrp.getChildren().add(getDropDownMenu(each));
}
return this.myBarGrp;
}
I changed it to this, both generate the same output:
public UIToolbarGroup getMyBarGrp()
{
FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
this.myBarGrp = (UIToolbarGroup) ctx.getApplication().createComponent(ctx,
UIToolbarGroup.COMPONENT_TYPE, "org.richfaces.ToolbarGroupRenderer");
this.myBarGrp.setId("dynMenuGrp");
for (CtsPermissionHierarchyAltV each : this.getMainMenuList())
{
this.myBarGrp.getChildren().add(getDropDownMenu(each));
}
}
the getDropDownMenu and submenu methods are coded similarly.
I'm not getting any errors. FF firebug output for text that should be a dropdown menu looks like this:
<div id="mnMenu:Communications" class="rf-ddm-lbl rf-ddm-unsel ">
... more stuff
Pre-migration it looked like this:
<div id="mnMenu:Communications" class="rich-ddmenu-label rich-ddmenu-label-unselect">
... more stuff
Navigating through the firebug output I can see all the submenus - but they're all text references.
I see all my css files - they're showing up in body instead of head, but they're all there.
Did I miss something? What else can I check?
jboss 7.1.1 Seam 2.3.0 JSF2.1 RichFaces 4.2.2
Likely to be a resource problem. When you select one of the items in Firebug, do you see any matching CSS declarations (rf-ddm-lbl or rf-ddm-unsel)? Did you check for any 404 errors in using firebugs net tab?
BTW: CSS files should be referenced in the header.
Found the answer here. I needed to add
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.richfaces.webapp.ResourceServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/org.richfaces.resources/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
to web.xml. Not sure why it worked though, this solution is for containers using servlet2.5, and (as far as I know) I'm using servlet3.0.
claudegex your answer put me on the path to fix it - there actually were 404 errors. I'll mark this one correct after the bounty is over, you should get 1/2 of it.

JSF tags not being rendered as HTML [duplicate]

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JSF returns blank/unparsed page with plain/raw XHTML/XML/EL source instead of rendered HTML output
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I'm following the Java EE firstcup tutorial using Netbeans and Glassfish.
When I execute the JSF web tier I've been instructed to code, the browser gets the same JSF markup coded in the .xhtml file, and the tags are not rendered as HTML tags. I know this by using the view source code in my browser.
For example, for this code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:head>
<title>Page title here</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h2>
<h:outputText value="#{bundle.WelcomeMessage}" />
</h2>
</h:body>
</html>
The browser should get something like:
<html ...>
<head>
<title>Page title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>
the welcome message goes here
</h2>
</body>
</html>
Right?
Well, my browser is getting jsf code (the first piece of code above) and not the html code (the second piece of code above).
It seems to be a configuration problem in netbeans or glassfish but don't know what. Any ideas?
This is my web.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
<param-value>Development</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/firstcup/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
30
</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>greetings.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
This is my faces-config.xml file:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!-- =========== FULL CONFIGURATION FILE ================================== -->
<faces-config version="2.0"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd">
<application>
<resource-bundle>
<base-name>firstcup.web.WebMessages</base-name>
<var>bundle</var>
</resource-bundle>
<locale-config>
<default-locale>en</default-locale>
<supported-locale>es</supported-locale>
</locale-config>
</application>
<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/greetings.xhtml</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/response.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
</faces-config>
Moreover:
The url I'm entering in the browser is http://localhost:8081/firstcup/ but I've also tried: http://localhost:8081/firstcup/greetings.xhtml
I've checked Glassfish logs and there's no information about not being able to load FacesServlet
If JSF tags are not been parsed, then it simply means that the request has not been passed through the FacesServlet. That servlet is the one responsible for all that JSF stuff. You need to verify if the request URL used matches the url-pattern of the FacesServlet. Note that it is case sensitive.
This may however also happen if you opened the file directly in the builtin browser of the IDE. You shouldn't do that. You need to specify the right URL yourself in the address bar of either the builtin browser or an external browser (e.g. MSIE/Firefox).
Update: one more thing, did you declare the JSF HTML taglib in <html xmlns> attribtue? You omitted that in your code snippet.
It should look like
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
The following code in web.xml
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
instead of faces/* has solved my problem of non-rendered jsf tags.
Note: *.html causes stackoverflow
Check either your web.xml or your faces-config.xml. Something's obviously missing.
edit :
i don't know jsf 2, but in my jsf 1 faces-config.xml i have this :
<application>
<view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>
</application>
Maybe you should take a look a this. (could be a hint, sorry i cannot help any further)
edit 2 : this is not the answer, sorry
SOLVED: Changing the welcome-file in web.xml to the following solved the problem:
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>firstcup/greetings.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
This may not be relevant to you, but after hours of searching for the solution for a similar problem, my culprit turns out to be this file in WEB-INF/faces-config.xml :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd"/>
For some strange reason JBoss Tools 3.3.0.M2 put that file in my JSF 2.0 project and BOOM! Nothing works. The file looks very innocent yet (probably due to version="1.2") it made me quite frustrated.
I've searched logs (nothing!), WEB-INF/lib, classpaths, even removing dependencies and it turned out to be a single faces-config.xml :-P
Hopefully this helps someone...
I have also suffered from problem of jsf tags, not rendered at all. I used welcome file in web.xml as login/entry.xhtml.
When I changed that file to faces/login/entry.xhtml, it is working well.
It must be due to facesServelet is not intercepting the page.
It leads to rendering of only plain html and jsf tags are simply ignored.
Thanks #hendy-irawan
I solved my issue by changed my faces-config header
From
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd"
version="1.2">
</faces-config>
To
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_2.xsd"
version="2.2">
</faces-config>
I had the same problem. I deleted some richfaces jars from the WEB-INF/lib and JSF is working now.

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