ready-to-deploy demo throws exception on welcome page

[_lefti_]

Hi,

just downloaded http://download.jboss.com/jboss-richfaces/richfaces-demo-3.1.2.GA.war and deployed it on tomcat5.5.

when loading http://localhost:8080/richfaces-demo-3.1.2.GA/ this is what I get:

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Servlet.init() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:476)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:371)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:315)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doForward(PageContextImpl.java:691)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.forward(PageContextImpl.java:661)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:48)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:328)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:315)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

root cause

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory: javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory
javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:256)
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.init(FacesServlet.java:142)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doForward(PageContextImpl.java:691)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.forward(PageContextImpl.java:661)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:48)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:328)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:315)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.23 logs.

Any hints much appreciated

lefti

[sergeysmirnov]

I have just checked it on my side with 5.5.23. Works fine like expected.
So, try to figure out what is wrong on your part. Clean the cache, make sure you have no extra jar files in the shared lib folders, etc/