noob Help needed with Chapter 3 of the developers guide

[roridge]

Hi all you RichFacers out there,

I am trying to create the example from Chapter 3 of the developers guide:
http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossrichfaces/freezone/docs/devguide/en/html/GettingStarted.html

The first thing I did was to add the missing taglib at the top of the echo.jsp source

<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/rich" prefix="rich"%>

I was originally using JSF 1.1, but have found that I need the more upto date Apache Commons libraries. So I have copied them into the WEB-INF/lib directories, and I was able to deploy the application to Tomcat 5.5.17. Because the live demo uses 1.2, i have changed to use all the same libraries too.

Except I keep getting a

NoClassDefFoundError for javax/servlet/jsp/tagext/JspIdConsumer

I already have the "live" demo running in my Tomcat 5.5.17 instance, so I know it works.

So I changed the echo.jsp to an echo.xhtml, with the correct syntax, and faces-config.xml elements. And it WORKS... hooray.

So how come it doesn't work when its a regular JSP?

Any help, ideas, suggestions would be VERY wel received.

Many thanks
Ror

[alexanderbelov]

Tomcat 5.5 doen't support JSP2.1 and Servlet 2.5.

[roridge]

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Thank you Alexander. I have now switched to GlassFish and everything is working fine.

I didn't realise that RichFaces ere JSP2.1 and Servlet 2.5 were dependant on, I thought it was backwards compatible?

If possible could you or anyone point me in the direction of a list of Dependencies for RichFaces. Like Commons-Collections 3.2 et cetera.

[alexanderbelov]

I hope, developers of RichFaces will help you. I can provide list of dependencies, but I am not sure that it will be full.

[roridge]

So far the dependencies I have identified in addition to the 3 RichFaces libraries are:

commons-beautils 1.7
commons-collections 3.2
commons-digester 1.8
commons-logging 1.0.4
jsf-api 1.2
jsf-impl 1.2
jsf-facelets 1.1.12
el-api 1.0
el-impl 1.0

[mcoffin]

I just ran into the same issue, is there a version that works in 2.4/2.0 (Tomcat 5.5).

The samples run fine, but I see that don't use jsp's.