First forward to main page gets 404, but simple JSF app work

[dkarr]

I've just started to look deeply into JSF. I'm deploying some test apps to WebLogic 9.2.2. I have two simple apps I'm testing. One is a plain JSF app, and the other is the "echo" RichFaces app.

When I go to the URL for the plain JSF app, the "index.jsp" successfully forwards to the main page, and it shows up.

When I go to the URL for the RichFaces "echo" app, I immediately get a 404.

I added some debug, so I know that it executes my "index.jsp". I also set a breakpoint in org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(), and I see it hit that. I also added a debugging lifecycle listener.

So, with this debug enabled, I get this:


[DEBUG] BaseFilter - Filter start request processing at 12/31/07 12:05 PM for uri: /AjaxEcho/faces/echo.jsp
[DEBUG] BaseFilter - Filter request output to XML
BeforePhase: RESTORE_VIEW 1
AfterPhase: RESTORE_VIEW 1
BeforePhase: RENDER_RESPONSE 6
AfterPhase: RENDER_RESPONSE 6
[DEBUG] BaseFilter - Finished request processing total time 31ms for uri: /AjaxEcho/faces/echo.jsp

But I still get a 404.

What else can I look at to determine what might be going wrong here?

[dkarr]

If it helps, I managed to turn on debugging for "com.sun.faces" and "org.ajax4jsf", which produced the output following this. This didn't help me find a solution.

[DEBUG] BaseFilter - Filter start request processing at 12/31/07 1:57 PM for uri: /AjaxEcho/faces/echo.jsp
[DEBUG] BaseFilter - Filter request output to XML
[DEBUG] BaseXMLFilter - XML filter service start processing request
[DEBUG] LifecycleImpl - execute(com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl@1539b09)
[DEBUG] AjaxPhaseListener - Process before phase RESTORE_VIEW 1
[DEBUG] InitPhaseListener - Perform additional framework initialization on first request
BeforePhase: RESTORE_VIEW 1
[DEBUG] RestoreViewPhase - Entering RestoreViewPhase
[DEBUG] ViewHandlerImpl - URL pattern of the FacesServlet executing the current request /faces
[DEBUG] AjaxStateManager - Can't restore view state : no saved view states in se ssion
[DEBUG] AjaxViewHandler - Detect session expiration in AJAX request - view don't restored for a viewId /echo.jsp
[DEBUG] RestoreViewPhase - New request: creating a view for /echo.jsp
[DEBUG] ViewHandlerImpl - Created new view for /echo.jsp
[DEBUG] ViewHandlerImpl - Locale for this view as determined by calculateLocale en
[DEBUG] ViewHandlerImpl - RenderKitId for this view as determined by calculateRenderKitId HTML_BASIC
[DEBUG] RestoreViewPhase - Exiting RestoreViewPhase
AfterPhase: RESTORE_VIEW 1
[DEBUG] InitPhaseListener - Remove init phase listener from factories
[DEBUG] LifecycleImpl - removePhaseListener(ANY 0,org.ajax4jsf.event.InitPhaseListener@b61de0
[DEBUG] AjaxPhaseListener - Process after phase RESTORE_VIEW 1
[DEBUG] LifecycleImpl - Skipping rest of execute() because of a reload
[DEBUG] LifecycleImpl - render(com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl@1539b09)
[DEBUG] AjaxPhaseListener - Process before phase RENDER_RESPONSE 6
[DEBUG] AjaxPhaseListener - PhaseListener enter Before RenderView Phase with ViewId /echo.jsp and RenderKitId HTML_BASIC
BeforePhase: RENDER_RESPONSE 6
[DEBUG] RenderResponsePhase - Entering RenderResponsePhase
[DEBUG] RenderResponsePhase - About to render view /echo.jsp
[DEBUG] ViewHandlerImpl - About to render view /echo.jsp
[DEBUG] ViewHandlerImpl - URL pattern of the FacesServlet executing the current request /faces
[DEBUG] ViewHandlerImpl - Found no URL patterns mapping to FacesServlet
[DEBUG] AjaxContext - Process component tree for collect used scripts and styles
[DEBUG] InternetResourceBuilder - Return instance of internet resource builder org.ajax4jsf.resource.ResourceBuilderImpl@1011211
[DEBUG] RenderResponsePhase - Exiting RenderResponsePhase
AfterPhase: RENDER_RESPONSE 6
[DEBUG] AjaxPhaseListener - Process after phase RENDER_RESPONSE 6
[DEBUG] BaseXMLFilter - create HTML/XML parser for content type: null
[DEBUG] BaseXMLFilter - Parser not have support for the such content type, send response as-is
[DEBUG] BaseFilter - Finished request processing total time 17721ms for uri: /AjaxEcho/faces/echo.jsp

[dkarr]

I got this working, but it sure seems odd to me. In the working JSF app, I didn't notice that the forward from "index.jsp" references "/faces/main.jsp", even though "main.jsp" is in the root of the app. I changed my RichFaces app to do the same, so it references the "fake" root directory of "/faces". Now it works fine, it's just odd looking. I didn't notice this being called out in the JSF book (Complete Reference).

[sergeysmirnov]

Each JSF request should pass the JSF servlet.
It was too much obvious for the book released 3 years after the JSF took place.