JBoss 5beta1, JSF1.2 and Netbeans Visual Web Pack

[h0ppy]

Hi, I'm trying to get a net beans visual web pack created project to deploy in Jboss 5 beta 1. Initially Jboss complained that the generated managed-beans.xml was not well formed, but I couldn't see anything wrong with it according the the JSF1.2 schema:

<?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">
 <managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>BackOfficeSession</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>com.uk.realistic.regal.web.BackOfficeSession</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>
...
(all lot more of the same)
...

</faces-config>

Moving this into the main faces-config.xml and removing the reference to managed-beans.xml in web.xml fixes this. Any ideas why it thinks it isn't well formed?

The next problem is that it will not compile any .jsp file that uses a Visual Web Pack component (Woodstock components), I get a huge number of errors far too long to publish here, but here are the interesting ones:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP

An error occurred at line: 5 in the jsp file: /Index.jsp
Generated servlet error:
The method setId(String) in the type UIComponentClassicTagBase is not applicable for the arguments (JspValueExpression)
..
..
An error occurred at line: 5 in the jsp file: /Footer.jspf
Generated servlet error:
The method setId(String) in the type UIComponentClassicTagBase is not applicable for the arguments (JspValueExpression)


 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:85)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:329)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:415)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:308)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
 at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:273)
 at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:566)
..
..
..
An error occurred at line: 5 in the jsp file: /Footer.jspf
Generated servlet error:
The method setId(String) in the type UIComponentClassicTagBase is not applicable for the arguments (JspValueExpression)


 at com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:418)
 at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.executePageToBuildView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:480)
 at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:125)
 at com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.faces.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:285)
 at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:133)
 at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:244)
 at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:140)
...
...
...
An error occurred at line: 5 in the jsp file: /Footer.jspf
Generated servlet error:
The method setId(String) in the type UIComponentClassicTagBase is not applicable for the arguments (JspValueExpression)


 at com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.faces.ViewHandlerImpl.cleanup(ViewHandlerImpl.java:559)
 at com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.faces.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:290)
 at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:133)
 at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:244)
 at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:140)

I feel that I should be performing some additional configuration for the woodstock (visual web pack/creator 2) components, but have no idea where to start! Any suggestions/pointers would be most welcome.

[ssilvert]

The Jasper code in beta 1 had some problems with IceFaces components. This might be the same problem. I don't know of anyone who has tried it with Woodstock. You might want to try building JBoss 5 out of subversion, or waiting for the JBoss 4.2 beta which should be out very soon. Both contain the IceFaces fix.

As for the "well-formed" problem, I don't know the answer. Maybe something really was not well-formed?

Stan
http://jsf.jboss.org

[h0ppy]

Hi Stan,

I didn't notice your reply as I don't think I got the notification email or it was idenitfied as spam... I notice 4.2 CR1 is out, I'll give it a try tomorrow and let you know the results.

Thanks very much,
Jason

[h0ppy]

Hi Stan,

I deployed my app to JBoss 4.2CR1 and the good news is the malformed error has disapeared! The bad news is I am getting the same error from the woodstock components:

12:42:28,578 ERROR [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:

An error occurred at line: 5 in the jsp file: /Index.jsp
The method setId(String) in the type UIComponentClassicTagBase is not applicable for the arguments (JspValueExpression)
2: <jsp:root version="1.2" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmln
s:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
3: <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
4: <f:view>
5: <webuijsf:page binding="#{Index.index}" id="index">
6: <webuijsf:html binding="#{Index.html}" id="html">
7: <webuijsf:head binding="#{Index.head}" id="head">
8: <webuijsf:link binding="#{Index.link1}" id="link1" url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>

It's a little bit strange becuase I'm not using a jspValueExpression on the id attribute (I assume that means a #{...} expression). I checked the TLD file for the components and could find nothing untoward there. I can only assume that the version of UIComponentClassicTagBase in JBoss is not what the components are expecting. Do you know what version if the jsf-api/impl are used by 4.2?

Any other suggestions would be most welcome.

Regards,
Jason

[ssilvert]

JBoss 4.2 is using JSF 1.2_03 from java.net. Have you tried the tag without setting the id attribute?

Do you have a simple test app that I can try to reproduce the problem with?

Stan
http://jsf.jboss.org

[tekniklas]

I also have this problem reproduced with jboss4.2CR2 with an app which works with suns app server. The attribute id is mandatory for the tag.

index.jsp:

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<%@taglib prefix="ui" uri="http://java.sun.com/blueprints/ui" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>AJAX FileUpload Page</title>
<script>

 function props(namex) {
 var listx="";
 var ob=dojo.byId(namex);
 for(xx in ob) {
 listx += xx + " = " + ob[xx] + "<br/>"
 }
 //document.write(listx);
 alert(listx);
 }

 function testRetFunction(type, data, evt){
 // handle successful response here
 var resultx = data.getElementsByTagName("response")[0];
 if(resultx) {
 alert("Customer AJAX Return Function Call" + '\n' +
 "Message: " + resultx.getElementsByTagName("message")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + '\n' +
 "Status Code: " + resultx.getElementsByTagName("status")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + '\n' +
 "Raw Duration Time (milliseconds): " + resultx.getElementsByTagName("duration")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + '\n' +
 "Duration Time String: " + resultx.getElementsByTagName("duration_string")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + '\n' +
 "Start Date/Time: " + resultx.getElementsByTagName("start_date")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + '\n' +
 "End Date/Time: " + resultx.getElementsByTagName("end_date")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + '\n' +
 "Byte Size of Upload: " + resultx.getElementsByTagName("upload_size")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
 } else {
 alert("Customer AJAX Return Function Call");
 }
 }

</script>
</head>
<body>
 <h1>AJAX FileUpload Page</h1>

 <f:view>

 <table border="1" colspacing="5" colpadding="5">
 <tr>
 <td>
 <br/>FileUpload Test Section 1.
 <br/>This section tests the custom return function with progress bar<br/>
 <ui:fileUploadTag id="TestFileuploadForm0" retFunction="testRetFunction" retMimeType="text/xml"
 postProcessingMethod="#{FileUploadCustomBean.postProcessingMethod}"
 progressBarDivId="progress1x" progressBarSubmitId="submit1x" progressBarSize="40">
 <input type="file" size="40" name="fileToUpload0" id="fileToUpload0Id"/><br/>
 <input type="file" size="40" name="fileToUpload1" id="fileToUpload1Id"/><br/>
 <input type="file" size="40" name="fileToUpload2" id="fileToUpload2Id"/><br/>
 <input type="submit" id="submit1x" name="submit1x" value="Submit"/><br/>
 <div id="progress1x"></div><br/>
 </ui:fileUploadTag>
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>
 <br/>FileUpload Test Section 2.
 <br/>This section tests the default scenario.<br/>
 <ui:fileUploadTag id="TestFileuploadForm2" progressBarDivId="progress3x" progressBarSubmitId="submit3x">
 <input type="file" size="40" name="fileToUpload5" id="fileToUpload5Id"/><br/>
 <input type="submit" id="submit3x" name="submit3x" value="Submit"/>
 <div id="progress3x"></div><br/>
 </ui:fileUploadTag>
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>

 </f:view>
 <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
 <hr/>
 <center>
 <a href="http://blueprints.dev.java.net/">Java BluePrints</a> |
 <a href="http://sun.com">Sun Microsystems</a> © 2006 Sun Microsystems Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms.
 </center>
</body>
</html>

web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 version="2.5" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 <context-param>
 <param-name>com.sun.faces.verifyObjects</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>com.sun.faces.validateXml</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
 <param-value>client</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <servlet>
 <display-name>FacesServlet</display-name>
 <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>/faces/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
 <session-config>
 <session-timeout>
 30
 </session-timeout>
 </session-config>
 <welcome-file-list>
 <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
 </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

faces-config.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<!-- Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. You may not modify, use, reproduce, or distribute this software except in compliance with the terms of the License at:
 http://developer.sun.com/berkeley_license.html
 $Id: faces-config.xml,v 1.1 2006/06/20 00:08:52 inder Exp $ -->

<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">

 <managed-bean>
 <managed-bean-name>FileUploadCustomBean</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>com.sun.javaee.blueprints.fileupload.FileUploadCustomBean</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>

</faces-config>

The error message:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:

An error occurred at line: 51 in the jsp file: /index.jsp
The method setId(String) in the type UIComponentClassicTagBase is not applicable for the arguments (JspValueExpression)
48: <td>
49: <br/>FileUpload Test Section 1.
50: <br/>This section tests the custom return function with progress bar<br/>
51: <ui:fileUploadTag id="TestFileuploadForm0" retFunction="testRetFunction" retMimeType="text/xml"
52: postProcessingMethod="#{FileUploadCustomBean.postProcessingMethod}"
53: progressBarDivId="progress1x" progressBarSubmitId="submit1x" progressBarSize="40">
54: <input type="file" size="40" name="fileToUpload0" id="fileToUpload0Id"/><br/>


An error occurred at line: 66 in the jsp file: /index.jsp
The method setId(String) in the type UIComponentClassicTagBase is not applicable for the arguments (JspValueExpression)
63: <td>
64: <br/>FileUpload Test Section 2.
65: <br/>This section tests the default scenario.<br/>
66: <ui:fileUploadTag id="TestFileuploadForm2" progressBarDivId="progress3x" progressBarSubmitId="submit3x">
67: <input type="file" size="40" name="fileToUpload5" id="fileToUpload5Id"/><br/>
68: <input type="submit" id="submit3x" name="submit3x" value="Submit"/>
69: <div id="progress3x"></div><br/>

Please let me know if you have a solution.

Thanks in advance

[ssilvert]

Can you send me a simple test app that reproduces the problem? I'd like to see this problem for myself and debug it from here.

Thanks,

Stan

[ssilvert]

There is a problem in the TLD for the fileUploadTag. If you look in ui.tld for that tag, the id is defined like this:

<attribute>
 <name>id</name>
 <required>true</required>
 <rtexprvalue>false</rtexprvalue>
 <deferred-value>
 <type>java.lang.String</type>
 </deferred-value>
 <description>
 The required attribute is used to associate the components related functions.
 </description>
 </attribute>

But FileUploadTag.java extends javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentELTag, which is designed for JSF 1.2. For components that extend this class, the id attribute must be defined like this:

<attribute>
 <name>id</name>
 <required>
 false
 </required>
 <rtexprvalue>
 true
 </rtexprvalue>
 <description>
 The required attribute is used to associate the components related functions.
 </description>
 </attribute>

See Section 9.3 of the JSF 1.2 spec.

Anyhow, if you change the TLD to what I have above, it will work.

Stan
http://jsf.jboss.com