myfaces with jboss4.0.2 not working, on 4.0.2RC1 its fine

[tomerbd]

Hi

There is a problem running myfaces on jboss4.0.2 whil on jboss4.0.2RC1 everything is fine.

The faces context is null on 4.0.2

[ssilvert]

Can you be more specific?

Please post the stack trace and any other relevant info.

Stan

[ardochoke]

We are also having a problem with an app that works fine in JBoss 4.0.1sp1 but falls over big time in 4.0.2.

Ours is a struts / tiles app that we have been using all the way from JBoss 3.2.4 and migrating through the releases as they come out.

While this is a different problem; i wonder if the common parts of this problem mean we have the same root cause. We think that it is most likely to do with the move to Tomcat 5.5. Anyway, here's our stack trace:

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org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Failed to load or instantiate TagExtraInfo class: org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.CookieTei
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:50)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:407)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:279)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.createTagInfo(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:422)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.parseTLD(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:248)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:162)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:418)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:483)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1543)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:126)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:211)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:100)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:146)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:267)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:255)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:556)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:293)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1056)
org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:261)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.internalModuleRelativeForward(RequestProcessor.java:994)
org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.internalModuleRelativeForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:343)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForward(RequestProcessor.java:553)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:211)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:697)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
com.me.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:89)
com.me.web.UserFilter.doFilter(UserFilter.java:143)
org.securityfilter.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:209)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)

*root cause*

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.CookieTei
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.createTagInfo(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:420)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.parseTLD(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:248)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TagLibraryInfoImpl.(TagLibraryInfoImpl.java:162)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:418)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:483)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1543)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:126)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:211)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:100)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:146)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:267)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:255)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:556)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:293)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1056)
org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:261)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.internalModuleRelativeForward(RequestProcessor.java:994)
org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.internalModuleRelativeForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:343)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForward(RequestProcessor.java:553)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:211)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:697)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
com.me.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:89)
com.me.web.UserFilter.doFilter(UserFilter.java:143)
org.securityfilter.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:209)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)

[ssilvert]

Go into /jboss-4.0.2/server/default/deploy/bossweb-tomcat55.sar/META-INF/jboss-service.xml and set UseJBossWebLoader=true. The default changed for 4.0.2.

If that doesn't fix it there is one more config change to try, but I'd like to save that one until after you have tried changing the loader config. Please let me know if this fixes the JSF problem as well.

Stan

[ardochoke]

That fixed our problem. Thanks!

Can you please let us know what the next config item you were going to change though so that we have a trouble shooting path to follow in future?

Cheers,
Adrian

[ssilvert]

It's probably irrelevant to 4.0.2, but there is a new feature that was left in but not documented which allows the loading of taglibs that are globally available. This will be tested and documented in 4.0.3. It shouldn't make any difference, but I was going to ask you to disable it if setting useJBossLoader=true didn't work.


From /jboss-4.0.2/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/conf.web.xml

<!-- Use a custom options class to allow the shared tag lib descriptors
 to be loaded from jars in the tomcat sar conf/tlds directory. The
 standard options implementation can only find taglibs based on the
 class loader classpath.
 -->
 <init-param>
 <param-name>engineOptionsClass</param-name>
 <param-value>org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc5.jasper.JspServletOptions</param-value>
 </init-param>
 <!-- Specify the jars relative to the jbossweb-tomcat55.sar that should
 be scanned for common tag lib descriptors to include in every war
 deployment.
 -->
 <init-param>
 <description>MyFaces tlds</description>
 <param-name>tagLibJar0</param-name>
 <param-value>jsf-libs/myfaces-impl.jar</param-value>
 </init-param>

This will allow us to bundle MyFaces with the app server. Then you will no longer need to put the MyFaces jars in WEB-INF/lib

See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossFaces

Stan

[tomerbd2]

The UseJBossWebLoader=true seems to have fixed my problem too :)