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.
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I'm using Websphere 8.5 and its internal Java EE frameworks, Apache OpenWebBeans for DI & Apache MyFaces for view. I also have a JAR with some beans annotated with "#Named" (so, they're OpenWebBeans managed beans). This JAR is in the "WEB-INF/lib" directory of my web application and in the application's classpath.
I was told that I should put a "beans.xml" file in every JAR that I want the CDI implementation to find and manage beans. I did just that (there's a "beans.xml" file in the "META-INF" folder of the application and in the same folder of the JAR) and everything works flawless in Tomcat 7 (I can access my beans on JSF pages, everything gets injected and resolved without any problems, etc). I'm running Tomcat with Apache Open Web Beans 1.2 and MyFaces 2.0 JARs inside the application's "WEB-INF/lib".
Now, the problem: in Websphere, with the same configuration (without the framework JARs inside the application's "WEB-INF/lib", just my bean's JAR) I get a NoClassDefFoundError referring to a JSF class, "javax.faces.component.behavior.Behavior" everytime I try to load a page (no page loads, btw). Bizarrely, when I remove all "beans.xml" files from the application and from the JAR, everything works as expected with JSF (except OpenWebBeans bean loading and management, of course, since there's no "beans.xml" present).
I searched everywhere for this problem and can't find any clue about it. I know that this class is avaliable to websphere, since I searched the server JARs and found it at "WEBSPHERE_INSTALL\plugins\javax.j2ee.jsf.jar" (and also because without the "beans.xml", this class is found and everything works properly), but I have no clue why this JAR isn't loaded when any"beans.xml" file is present in the application's classloader. Can somebody help, please?
WebSphere really needs a WEB-INF/beans.xml file in your WAR! Otherwise WAS doesn't 'activate' CDI. This is actually not required by the spec, bnd adding this file at least isn't forbidden. It will simply make all your classes in WEB-INF/classes CDI beans.
Just having the META-INF/beans.xml in some jars around doesn't help.
That's the way WAS works, it's a minor thing once you know it. I didn't even bother to create a PMR ;)
My purpose is to run a JSF application on OSGI Framework. So, I am trying to deploy a WAR file to a servlet container for OSGi web applications, called PAX-WEB. I have a proper working JSF implementation working on WildFly 8.0 application server. I succesfully created OSGi-ified WAR file from this application. When I try to deploy it into PAX-WEB using Maven the following error occurs:
missing requirement: javax.servlet.annotation
I have these JARs in /lib folder of my application: jsf-api-2.1.7, jsf-impl-2.1.7, jsp-api-2.1, jstl-1.2. When I add javax.servlet-api-3.0.1.jar to my WAR file and re-deploy it, this time the following error occurs:
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet cannot be cast to javax.servlet.Servlet
With this error, I can run my JSF page, but it is not displaying JSF tags.
You're mixing two issues here.
One, your framework setup is missing the servlet classes. So in that case I propose to use the pax-web-jetty-bundle. It's an uber bundle and also contains and exports the servlet classes. In that case make sure you don't have the servlet jars in your framework setup available. Btw. taking a look at the samples and Integration tests of Pax Web itself helps already to understand which libraries are needed.
The second issue you are facing is an issue of adding the servlet classes to the war, this is per OSGi and servlet spec forbidden to do.
So without any further knowledge of your scenario you might be better of with using the Apache Karaf server (it uses Pax Web), cause there all infrastructure bundles are already included and known to work together.
One more thing, you get more and better feedback at the ops4j mailinglist.
Reading the documentation of redhat (https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6/html/Development_Guide/chap-Class_Loading_and_Modules.html) I found that the application server classloader
has a priority list when loading classes that are used to avoid any conflict between
loaded classes, The order is as below
Implicit dependencies.
These are the dependencies that are added automatically by JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, such as the JAVA EE APIs. These dependencies have the highest class loader precedence because they contain common functionality and APIs that are supplied by JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.
Refer to Section 3.7.1, “Implicit Module Dependencies” for complete details about each implicit dependency.
Explicit dependencies.
These are dependencies that are manually added in the application configuration. This can be done using the application's MANIFEST.MF file or the new optional JBoss deployment descriptor jboss-deployment-structure.xml file.
Refer to Section 3.2, “Add an Explicit Module Dependency to a Deployment” to learn how to add explicit dependencies.
Local resources.
Class files packaged up inside the deployment itself, e.g. from the WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF/lib directories of a WAR file.
Inter-deployment dependencies.
These are dependencies on other deployments in a EAR deployment. This can include classes in the lib directory of the EAR or classes defined in other EJB jars.
I tried to test this order by using a JSF webapp (rich faces) in my EAR archive
My ear is as below :
sample.ear
--- sport.war
--- mysql.jar
--- lib
Usescase 1 : I added the JSF jars under the webapp (sport.war/WEB-INF/lib): [jsf-api-2.1.14.jar/jsf-impl-2.1.14.jar/portletbridge-api-3.1.2.Final.jar/portletbridge-impl-3.1.2.Final.jar], the jboss server started well and I don't have any exception
Usescase2: I added the JSF jars under sample.ear/lib
==> When I start the jboss server I get an exception (it sounds that the application server loaded the module JSF provided by jboss Implicit dependencies instead of the one in my sample.ear/lib)
I can't understand why in the 1srt usescase the Class Loading Precedence is not respected while in the 2sd usescase the Class Loading Precedence is respected?
Could you please clarify me this point
ENV
JBoss EAP 6.1.0.GA (AS 7.2.0.Final-redhat-8)
JDK 6
Without seeing the exact deployment exception that you got it is difficult to diagnose the issue.
In the first scenario the packaged libraries are loaded in the same class loader as your application.
In the second scenario the packaged libraries are loaded in a separate module and class loader.
The above means that , The deployment issue you were having fo not have to be related to Class Loading Precedence they could also be related to Class Loading Isolation.
Also Jboss and EAP already come with a prepackaged implementation of JSF, and you might be experiencing collisions due to version mismatch
If you were looking to replace the default JSF implementation on JBoss the better option to do so would have been to put the new JSF implementation in a static module, just like the default one , and have Jboss load it on demand.
I'd like to use <p:calendar> in my JSF app developed in Netbeans, so I added the PrimeFaces library. However, when I deploy the app, it errors as follows:
Context with name [/ManagedBeansWithComponents] has not yet been started
C:\Users\Dell-pc\Documents\NetBeansProjects\ManagedBeansWithComponents\nbproject\build- impl.xml:1040: The module has not been deployed.
See the server log for details.
BUILD FAILED (total time: 1 second)
And the server log says:
Source Document: jar:file:/C:/Users/Dell-pc/Documents/NetBeansProjects/ManagedBeansWithComponents/build/web/WEB-INF/lib/primefaces-3.5.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml
Cause: Class 'org.primefaces.component.fileupload.FileUploadRenderer' is missing a runtime dependency: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileItem
How is this caused and how can I solve it?
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileItem
There is the cause. It's crystal clear. The mentioned class is missing in the runtime classpath. The solution is rather straightforward: put the mentioned class (or, the JAR file containing it) in the runtime classpath. As the package name hints, it's available on http://commons.apache.org/fileupload (which in turn has by the way http://commons.apache.org/io as dependency). Just download and drop those JARs in the same place as PrimeFaces JAR and all should be well.
Unrelated to the concrete problem, note that this particular problem is in turn unintented by PrimeFaces. This problem should actually only occur when you register the FileUploadFilter for the <p:fileUpload> component in web.xml. However, since GlassFish 4.0, it is overzealously preloading every single JSF component and renderer class found in the classpath even if it's never used by the application. The class loading in turn causes all its runtime dependencies to be checked. If it's missing, then you get the NoClassDefFoundError. This problem is thus specific to GlassFish 4.0 and does not occur when using GlassFish 3.x or any other servletcontainer such as Tomcat or JBoss.
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.