JBOSS and JSF Portlets (Sun RI)

[pauljoyce]

Hi,

I am trying to deploy a JSF JSR 168 portlet to JBoss Portal 2.2.1 RC3.
The Portlet I am trying to deploy is a Sun RI example (guess number JSF portlet). I am using this as it is Sun RI portlets I hope to deploy.

I am getting an exception on deployment that mentions a MyFaces class ?? strange. I read somehwhere that I should remove the bundled myfaces jars - I did to no avail.

Stan Silverts excellent presentation at JavaOne last year made it seem very simple to adapt a JSF app and deploy it as a JSR 168 portlet to JBoss. Sadly I am failing. Does anyone have more detailed instructions ?

Has anyone managed to deploy the example I mentioned - guess-number-jsf-portlet from Sun.

The exception I get is

javax.faces.FacesException: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.myfaces.renderkit.html.ext.HtmlButtonRenderer
 at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:324)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3692)
:
:
:

I would really appreciate any help available. I am new to portlets and JSF so I am have a hell of a time trying to get it all to gel. Some post say the integration (JSF/JSR168) is simple but others paint a bleak picture.

regards,
pj

[hamptont]

I'm having the same problem.

I'm trying to deploy a portlet that was built using a modified version of the myfaces libraries. These modified myfaces libraries are bundled into the portlet and JBoss has a diff version in JBoss/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs.

I read something about deployment based scoping but this doesn't seem to work for the files that are in the JBoss/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs directory.

Is there someway to configure a portlet app so that it will use the myfaces libraries from the portlet war file instead of the ones in JBoss/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs ?

The JBoss docs say to delete the JBoss/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs directory from JBoss, but I can't do that because then the JBoss-Portal doesn't work.

Thanks,
Tom

[pauljoyce]

Hi,

me again. I managed to get the guess-numbers sample portlet deployed to JBoss. What did I do :

1) changed the portlet.xml to use myfaces libraries
2) added the myfaces listener to web.xml
2) removed the JSF Sun RI libs from the jar.

so basically changed the sample to use Myfaces libs instead of Sun RI.

I still have an app that is Sun RI based that I want to deploy to JBoss. Toms question is very relevant. The solution on the JBoss site ( remove the JSF libs ) does not work as there are portlets in the JBoss portal that use these libs.

regards,
PJ

[scottdawson]

Here's a wiki page that gives the details of using MyFaces and JBoss, including information on Tomahawk and substituting the Sun RI:
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossFaces

Regards,
Scott

[pauljoyce]

from the wiki

To use the JSF Reference Implementation instead of the bundled MyFaces implementation, simply delete the jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-lib directory. Then, package the RI in your WEB-INF/lib directory as usual.

this does NOT work.
JBoss itself uses these jars so when removed you cannot access the portal homepage.

[theute]

If you remove the JSF libs from jsf-libs then you need to embed them into the portal webapp since the portlet manager is using JSF.

[pauljoyce]

how does one go about this ? i.e. embedding the jars in the JBoss Portal webapp
i tried moving them the the server/default/lib dir but no joy. have to run so will look at it again tomorrow.
if you have any suggestions it would be great.
pj

[cooliluv]

Hi,

I have the same problem. I am not using Myfaces but Sun faces. Roy was going to have a look at it.
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3886147

[steinarrune]

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/marcoscorner?entry=creator_2_portlet_in_jboss

[elam]

Paul, did you ever find a solution for this?

[pauljoyce]

Hi Elam,

Did not find a solution or spend very long trying to. Switched to using the Jetspeed 2 Portal.

/Paul.

[peter.brueckler]

Hi all,

so after following several blogs I came to the solution that using JBoss Portal together with Sun Java Studio Creator 2 will only work by droping the Sun Faces RI and replace them with the MyFaces, is this correct?

Or is there meanwhile a new status?
@Roy: You started to do the necessary steps for integrate Sun Faces RI. Some new results?

THX & BR,
Peter

[herveminko]

Hi all,

I also want to display a small JSF application as a portlet using JBoss porlat. My application uses the SUN RI libraries... Is there really no possibility to perform that? It's very important for me to know that ...

Thanks