Accessing a protected JSF page causes

[basel]

I managed to get declarative security to work with JBoss and MySQL using FORM based authentication. Everything works fine except when I try to acess a protected JSF page. Accessing a JSF page that is not protected is perfectly fine.

Here is what happens:
1. I point the browser to a protected JSF page such as localhost:8080/seam_01/pro/guess.jsf
2. The server loads the login.jsp page
3. Entering a wrong username and password causes the error.jsp page to be displayed
4. Accessing the same protected page agains shows the login.jsp page
5. Upon entering valid username and password, the server returns "HTTP Status 404 - /seam_01/pro/guess.jsf"
6. Now accessing a non-protected page such as localhost:8080/seam_01/simple.jsf is just fine
7. Also, accessing a protected resource other than JSF pages works fine as well.

Now going back to console I can see a long stack trace. Here are some excerpts from it:

19:36:46,105 ERROR [STDERR] org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line -1 of document : Premature end of file. Nested exception: Premature end of file.
19:36:46,106 ERROR [STDERR] at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:482)
19:36:46,106 ERROR [STDERR] at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:343)
19:36:46,106 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.seam.core.Pages.initialize(Pages.java:77)
19:36:46,106 ERROR [STDERR] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
...


19:36:46,113 ERROR [STDERR] Nested exception:
19:36:46,113 ERROR [STDERR] org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
19:36:46,113 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,114 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,114 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,114 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,114 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,114 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,115 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,115 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,115 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,115 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,115 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,115 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,116 ERROR [STDERR] at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:465)
19:36:46,116 ERROR [STDERR] at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:343)
19:36:46,116 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.seam.core.Pages.initialize(Pages.java:77)
...


19:36:46,123 ERROR [STDERR] Nested exception:
19:36:46,123 ERROR [STDERR] org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
19:36:46,123 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,124 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,124 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,124 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,128 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,129 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,129 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,129 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,129 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,129 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,130 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,130 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
19:36:46,130 ERROR [STDERR] at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:465)
19:36:46,130 ERROR [STDERR] at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:343)
19:36:46,130 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.seam.core.Pages.initialize(Pages.java:77)
....


19:36:46,138 ERROR [STDERR] Jul 8, 2006 7:36:46 PM com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl phase
WARNING: phase(RENDER_RESPONSE 6,com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl@309b3e5e) threw exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: exception invoking: initialize exception invoking: initialize
org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invokeAndWrap(Reflections.java:43)
org.jboss.seam.Component.callComponentMethod(Component.java:1334)
org.jboss.seam.Component.callCreateMethod(Component.java:1322)
org.jboss.seam.Component.newInstance(Component.java:1312)
org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1263)
org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1253)
org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1235)
org.jboss.seam.core.Pages.instance(Pages.java:191)
org.jboss.seam.jsf.AbstractSeamPhaseListener.callPageActions(AbstractSeamPhaseListener.java:128)
org.jboss.seam.jsf.AbstractSeamPhaseListener.beforeRender(AbstractSeamPhaseListener.java:98)
org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.beforePhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:50)
com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:249)
com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:159)
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245)
...

How can I get this working?

[pmuir]

It looks to me as though your pages.xml file is not well formed and causing a parsing exception.

[basel]

Hey petemuir,

The file does not contain a single character and it is size is 0KB. I will try removing it once I go back home.

[basel]

Replacing the old pages.xml with a new one that has an empty pages tag solved part of the problem. The server still returns a 404 error code but no exceptions are thrown. Instead the following error messages are printed on the console:

16:45:08,227 ERROR [STDERR] Jul 9, 2006 4:45:08 PM com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl populateFacesELResolverForJsp
INFO: FacesELResolvers not registered with Jsp.
16:45:08,292 INFO [Pages] reading pages.xml
16:45:08,541 ERROR [STDERR] Jul 9, 2006 4:45:08 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/mnt/data/dev_env/jboss_4.0.4.GA_jems/server/default/deploy/seam_01.ear/seam_01.war/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-ui.jar!/META-INF/seam.taglib.xml
16:45:08,579 ERROR [STDERR] Jul 9, 2006 4:45:08 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/mnt/data/dev_env/jboss_4.0.4.GA_jems/server/default/deploy/seam_01.ear/seam_01.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jstl-core.taglib.xml
16:45:08,614 ERROR [STDERR] Jul 9, 2006 4:45:08 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/mnt/data/dev_env/jboss_4.0.4.GA_jems/server/default/deploy/seam_01.ear/seam_01.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jsf-ui.taglib.xml
16:45:08,624 ERROR [STDERR] Jul 9, 2006 4:45:08 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/mnt/data/dev_env/jboss_4.0.4.GA_jems/server/default/deploy/seam_01.ear/seam_01.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jstl-fn.taglib.xml
16:45:08,657 ERROR [STDERR] Jul 9, 2006 4:45:08 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/mnt/data/dev_env/jboss_4.0.4.GA_jems/server/default/deploy/seam_01.ear/seam_01.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jsf-core.taglib.xml
16:45:08,668 ERROR [STDERR] Jul 9, 2006 4:45:08 PM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/mnt/data/dev_env/jboss_4.0.4.GA_jems/server/default/deploy/seam_01.ear/seam_01.war/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-facelets.jar!/META-INF/jsf-html.taglib.xml

[gavin.king]

You do not need pages.xml at all, it is an optional file!

[basel]

Hey Gavin,

What about the FacesELResolvers error message?

[gavin.king]

Ignore em. I get them too. They don't seem to cause a problem.

[basel]

Okay I will just ignore them. What should I do about the 404 status error?

5. Upon entering valid username and password, the server returns "HTTP Status 404 - /seam_01/pro/guess.jsf"