ICEFaces SelectInputText (auto-complete)

[damianharvey]

I have a problem with ICEFaces and Seam using the SelectInputText (auto-complete) component.

I can display a list well enough and have it limit based on letters typed in. However when I try to add code to get the selected item, it all goes wrong. The offending line in question is:

SelectInputText autoComplete = (SelectInputText) event.getComponent();

As you'd expect this casts the incoming component to com.icesoft.faces.component.selectinputtext.SelectInputText. This results in a ClassCastException for me.

To further frustrate matters I have checked the incoming component class and it is indeed com.icesoft.faces.component.selectinputtext.SelectInputText.

log.info("Event Component has class :"+event.getComponent().getClass().getName());

14:38:48,571 INFO [STDOUT] Event Component has class :com.icesoft.faces.component.selectinputtext.SelectInputText

I have added code to the ICEFaces sample and the only difference that I can see is that when it is passed in by the ICEFaces example it is an instance of SelectInputText, yet for some reason when I pass it in via Seam (and this includes using the sample code in my Seam project) it is not an instance.

event.getComponent() instanceof com.icesoft.faces.component.selectinputtext.SelectInputText

Does anyone know why this difference might result? As the ICEFaces sample code doesn't run in my project I assume that it is a configuration issue. Has anyone had ClassCast / instanceOf problems before?

Thanks,

Damian.

[gavin.king]

You must have two icefaces jars in your EAR, on different classloaders.

[damianharvey]

Thanks Gavin.

I have icefaces.jar in the root of the EAR and also in WEB-INF/lib in the WAR. Do you mean for the icefaces.jar to be copied to a second location in the EAR? If so what is a normal location and could you point me in the direction of how to configure this? I don't know how to configure a different classloader in an EAR.

Much appreciated.

Damian.

[gavin.king]

Never, ever, ever put two copies of the same jar in one EAR!

By that I include one in the EAR and one in the WAR (which is in the EAR).

[gavin.king]

Try putting the jars in the EAR *only*, and adding them to application.xml. Note sure if that will work but it might.

[damianharvey]

That works. Thanks for that!