java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find FacesContext

[ruchi123456]

I am new to EJB 3.0 and jboss sever. Am really stuck. Would appreciate any help.
I am using JSF + ejb3.0 + jboss 4.2
My jsf was running fine on jboss 4.0.5 GA, but in jboss 4.2 i get the below Exception, when i try to access jsf from ie
Cannot find FacesContext
java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find FacesContext
at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.getFacesContext(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:1797)
at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.setJspId(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:1614)
at org.apache.jsp.welcome_jsp._jspx_meth_f_005fview_005f0(welcome_jsp.java:106)
at org.apache.jsp.welcome_jsp._jspService(welcome_jsp.java:83)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)

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Below is the listener in my web.xml
<listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class>

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Also i have placed myfaces library jars in web-inf/lib folder of my application

Please suggest

Regards,
Ruchika

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi Ruchika,

I encountered the same problem with Suns RI.
The problem is: the faces context is initialized the first time you make a call to the faces servlet. This does not happen if yo call the page directly.

Solution 1:
browse to "welcome.faces" (or "welcome.jsf", depending on the faces url pattern) instead of "welcome.jsp".

Solution 2:
build a plain JSP index page which links to your faces page. This index page should contain this link:

<a href="welcome.faces">Start page</a>

Solution 3:
the index page contains a redirect to your jsf page:

<%@ page session="false" language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"%>
<% response.sendRedirect("geometricmodel.faces"); %>

Hope this helps

Wolfgang

[javatwo]

JBoss 4.2.2 myfaces,
I got the same problem with explicit page index.jsf with correct servlet mapping.