[smokingapipe]

I got it working.

Keys to the solution: el-*.jar must be in the ear and of course must be referenced in application.xml. I was trying a bunch of other things which gave me a bunch of other exceptions; once I did everything simpy, and just put the el-*.jars where they were needed, it worked.

I should have used seam-gen, but I started this whole thing before that was functional, and now I have my own build.xml and everything else. Next time I will certainly start with seam-gen, which would cut out 95% of the messing-around-with-jars-and-xml problems which have consumed a substantial amount of my time on this project.

[norman.richards]

Yes. You can also build the seam examples to see working examples of how to build Seam with the various supporting technologies.

[sjmenden]

Speak for yourself, just follow one of the example projects as a template. Setting everything up has been the easiest experience for me.

[jdijkmeijer]

Just a quick reply so that it may help future "non seam gen" coders:
I also go bitten by :

13:51:16,296 ERROR [STDERR] javax.faces.FacesException: com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleFactoryImpl
13:51:16,296 ERROR [STDERR] at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getImplGivenPreviousImpl(FactoryFinder.java:573)
..
13:51:16,671 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: javax.faces.FacesException: org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamApplicationFactory
13:51:16,734 ERROR [STDERR] at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getImplGivenPreviousImpl(FactoryFinder.java:573)
..
13:51:16,796 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamApplicationFactory
13:51:16,796 ERROR [STDERR] at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:335)

And for me it worked to remove the id attribute in the web module (That was put there by some coding plugin from eclipse I presume).

[sjmenden]

Speak for yourself man, just copy one of the examples, or do seam gen, and that is it, start coding.

[sjmenden]

double post, apologizes....:curses back button: