Problem starting deployed RichFaces war

[andrew_st]

Hello,

I would be really grateful for any help though I guess there must be some easy solution. But I have killed quite a lot of time trying to run some RichFaces application so ... you understand.

I'm using JBoss 4.2.2
WEB-INF\lib contains following jars:

commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-collections-3.2.jar
commons-digester-1.8.jar
commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
richfaces-api-3.2.1.GA.jar
richfaces-impl-3.2.1.GA.jar
richfaces-ui-3.2.1.GA.jar,

all collected by Maven

If my jsp-pages contain only jsf-components then my application works fine with RichFaces libraries included in war.
But if I put though <a4j: or <rich: tags on page, then my application deploys, there seems to be no trace of error in the jBoss log ... alas,
page never really loads.
What is happening actually is that page seems to be loading but the loading process never goes further than the message in the status bar "Elements 4/4".
I have tried to remove jBoss libraries from server > default > lib with the names similar to those included in war - commons-beanutils, commons-logging and two others (though versions are diferrent). This did not help.

So now I'm asking your help ...


Another problem is does anyone may explain why the war I have downloaded from this site titled "Ready-to-Deploy war RichFaces Demos for JavaEE 5 Containers - JBoss 4.2.0 and other" does not deploy on my machine?

Thank you in advance to anyone who will take trouble to give a hint of solution to me.

[andrew_st]

Regarding my 2nd problem, what server says is:

"2009-02-12 20:40:26,786 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/richfaces-demo-3.1.6.GA-jee5]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener
javax.faces.FacesException: org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.ChameleonRenderKitFactory"
....

[nbelaevski]

Hello,

This problem was reproducing in some version of Opera browser. Do you use it?
Also I recommend to try 3.3.0.GA release.

[andrew_st]

Hello,

thank you for the prompt reply.

I'm afraid this does not depend only on the browser - the symptoms are the same in Opera and Firefox.

In what way 3.3.0 is better than 3.3.2 ?

[andrew_st]

I'm sorry, it is late night here and I lost attention - so you think that 3.3.0 might solve my problem (now I'm trying to fire up 3.2.1) ?

[nbelaevski]

Probably yes; in any case, it should be very easy to try it - just replace .jar files.
I suggest that you check what's being loaded so long using "Net" tab of Firebug or some tool like MS Fiddler.

[andrew_st]

Thank you for suggestion.
With 3.3.0 it worked smoothly indeed.