I put this line in my .xhtml from the richfaces demo (Running richfaces on JBoss Portal 2.6)
<rich:panel> <rich:effect event="onmouseout" type="Opacity" params="duration:0.8,from:1.0,to:0.3" /> .... panel content .... </rich:panel>
Do nothing. Or use 3.1.1-SNAPSHOT if you do not want to see this harmless exceptions.