Run rich faces under Tomcat

[parki]

Hello!

I have a simple RichFaces application, which doesn't rely on any JBoss specific features, and so am wondering if I can deploy it under simply Tomcat - I don't need all that JBoss provides, and so I'm figuring that a lighter app container will speed up things.

Has anyone done this?

My app generates a war and ear file. If I deploy the ear to JBoss, it works beauty. If I deploy the war file to Tomcat, it doesn't start.

Thanks.

parki...

[sergeysmirnov]

You are probably missing the "Most Important Links" page (link is below)

The main richfaces-demo is working under Tomcat 5.5

The different between deployment under J2EE, Tomcat6 and JavaEE 5 is a set of jar files.

[parki]

Thanks Sergey.

I am able to get the demo app working in Tomcat5, which is very cool.

So this is good, but when I try to run my app (which runs under JBoss) I get an exception (see below).

I took a look at some other postings related, but unsure how to fix it.

My app is now using the _same_ jars as in the demo, but it appears that there is some issue with JSP?

Thanks.

parki...



javax.servlet.ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/JspIdConsumer
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:273)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/JspIdConsumer

[sergeysmirnov]

Use facelets instead of JSP if you want to run your app under jboss.

[parki]

Hi Sergey:

I'm new to all this - how do I use facelets as opposed to JSP?

Is this a simple refactoring exercise?

Thanks.

parki...

[sergeysmirnov]

https://facelets.dev.java.net/

[parki]

Thanks Sergey.

I went the other direction - since the examples are working under Tomcat, I'm going to refactor my web app basing it on the example code - should be much easier to do this (as I'm starting with something that works).

Appreciated.

parki..