Weblogic 8.1 + richfaces 3.1.6

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Hi

I have been developing a small project meant to run under weblogic 8.1. Richfaces according to documentation states that it supports weblogic 8.1.

Weblogic 8.1 uses servlet specification 2.3 with jsp 1.2 This has been working on my locally installed version of weblogic 8.1 but when deploying to the sparc server, I start running into trouble. I have worked through some of the initial headaches, but then I got an error 500 and couldnt get the details. But after some effort I have come out with this...

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax/servlet/jsp/JspContext

        at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:344)
        at com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:346)
        at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:152)
        at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108)
        at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:216)
        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:107)
        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:245)
        at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:137)
        at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:214)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1072)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:465)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
        at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:141)
        at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:281)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6987)
        at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
        at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3892)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2766)
        at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:224)
        at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:183)

JspContext is not part of jsp 1.2 it's newer. I am thinking this exception is originally a ClassNotFoundException or something similar considering the message. There is no 'cause' attached to the exception.

Following are the jar files contained in my web-application.

antlr-2.7.6.jar
asm-1.5.3.jar
asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar
cglib-2.1_3.jar
commons-beanutils-1.6.jar
commons-collections-3.2.jar
commons-digester-1.5.jar
commons-lang-2.4.jar
commons-logging-1.0.3.jar
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
ehcache-1.2.3.jar
hibernate-3.2.4.sp1.jar
jsf-api-1.1_02.jar
jsf-impl-1.1_02.jar
jstl-1.0.jar
jta-1.1.jar
log4j-1.2.15.jar
richfaces-api-3.1.6.SR1.jar
richfaces-impl-3.1.6.SR1.jar
richfaces-ui-3.1.6.SR1.jar
xercesImpl-2.9.1.jar
xml-apis-1.3.04.jar

Do I need to do a custom build the version of richfaces for weblogic? It's obvious that there is a dependency somewhere for jsp2+ but I'm looking for jsp1.2.
The user guide does specify weblogic 8.1

Our server is weblogic 8.1 service pack 6. Support jsp 1.2 and servlet 2.3.

Thank you.

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I have posted my end result on stackoverflow. (Yes I did crosspost, with good reason )

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2265343/richfaces-3-x-under-weblogic-8-1

As someone mentions, something might have been introduced into version 3.1.6 (even earlier as 3.1.4 did not work either).

I have moved down to 3.0.1 and used this succesfully.

I geuss the 3.1.x documentation cannot be modified anymore (not under active development right)? Because I do think weblogic 8.1 support is broken.

But next time I try to google this problem I'm sure I'll find this page :-P