n00b seeking for help...

[dablackgoku1234]

Hi all,

I'm kinda new to Richfaces. I've read the developer's guide and followed some of the steps to get things in place, however, I am not having any luck on getting the desired widget on the screen.

Here is the situation: I currently have an app running on Spring/MyFaces/Tomahawk/Shale. All the URLs look like xxx.faces.

1) I added the taglib <%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/rich" prefix="rich"%>

2) I added the following jars to WEB-INF\lib
richfaces-api-3.1.0-rc2.jar
richfaces-impl-3.1.0-rc2.jar
richfaces-ui-3.1.0-rc2.jar
xalan.jar

3) Inside web.xml, I added the following lines:

 <filter>
 <display-name>Ajax4jsf Filter</display-name>
 <filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
 <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
 </filter>

 <filter-mapping>
 <filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
 <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
 <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
 <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
 </filter-mapping>

 <servlet>
 <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
 <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

4) in my jsp, I added <rich:inputNumberSlider value="50"/>

That's it according to the guide. I am getting 2 errors...

1) a null pointer on the first url hit with a .faces extension

ERROR [http-8800-Processor25] PhaseListenerManager.informPhaseListenersAfter(94) | Exception in PhaseListener RENDER_RESPONSE(6) afterPhase
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at org.apache.myfaces.custom.redirectTracker.RedirectTrackerManager.getInstance(RedirectTrackerManager.java:168)
 at org.apache.myfaces.custom.redirectTracker.RedirectTrackerVariableResolver.resolveVariable(RedirectTrackerVariableResolver.java:47)
 at org.apache.myfaces.custom.security.SecurityContextVariableResolver.resolveVariable(SecurityContextVariableResolver.java:45)
 at org.ajax4jsf.context.AjaxContext.getCurrentInstance(AjaxContext.java:97)
 at org.ajax4jsf.event.AjaxPhaseListener.afterPhase(AjaxPhaseListener.java:75)

2) javascript error when I hit the jsp with the rich:inputNumberSlider tag. It seems that it did not included the required js files in the header

I know i'm probably missing something along the way, however, I pretty much followed the installation/dev guide step by step. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
John