richfaces4 Function 'rich:element' not found for rich:hotKey

[dejela]

Hi!

I download RichFaces4 to implement it with facelet.

I put:

<rich:hotKey key="return" handler="#{rich:element('login:submitBut')}.click()" />

And get an error:

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception

javax.el.ELException: Function 'rich:element' not found

at com.sun.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.visit(ExpressionBuilder.java:213)

at com.sun.el.parser.SimpleNode.accept(SimpleNode.java:168)

at com.sun.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.prepare(ExpressionBuilder.java:178)

at com.sun.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.build(ExpressionBuilder.java:189)

at com.sun.el.lang.ExpressionBuilder.createValueExpression(ExpressionBuilder.java:232)

my jars are:

commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar

commons-collections-3.2.jar

commons-digester-2.0.jar

commons-logging-1.1.1.jar

jhighlight-1.0.jar

jsf-api.jar

jsf-impl.jar

jstl-api-1.2.jar

jstl-impl-1.2.jar

log4j-1.2.15.jar

richfaces-api-4.0.0.ALPHA1.jar

richfaces-core-ui-4.0.0.ALPHA1.jar

richfaces-impl-4.0.0.ALPHA1.jar

slf4j-api-1.5.11.jar

slf4j-log4j12-1.5.11.jar

and this is my page:

<ui:composition template="/template/layout.xhtml">
 <ui:define name="body">
 <h:form id="login" prependId="false">
 <fieldset><legend>Simple sample</legend>
<h:outputLabel value="#{msg.User_Name}" /><br />
 <h:inputText id="j_username" value="#{loginRegisterBean.email}" 
required="true" requiredMessage="#{msg.User_Name_required}">
</h:inputText><h:outputText value="#{msg.Password}" />
<h:inputSecret requiredMessage="#{msg.User_Password_required}" id="j_password" required="true" />
 <br />
 <a4j:commandButton id="submitBut" action="#{loginBean.doLogin}" value="Login" reRender="mesg" />
<rich:hotKey key="return" handler="#{rich:element('login:submitBut')}.click()" />
 </fieldset>
 </h:form>
 </ui:define>
</ui:composition>
</html>

[ilya_shaikovsky]

at first 4.x do not has rich:hotKey for now. rich:element available but ony with latest snapshots. And b.t.w. now we adjusting the build.. and now it's required to use not only three jars you specified... so in order to play with 4.x (if you want to check current state) It would be easier to checkout full 4.x sources, build from root with sandbox and trunk profiles(right now there are also some problems but should be done till the end of the week ) and play with richfaces-showcase or core-demo examples.

[dejela]

Hi Ilya.

The week passed

When do you plan to release the BETA?

If I check out the project now, and build it myself - what components will not work?

Will JSF2 VDL and functionality of custom components like here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu2/index.html#tip3 work?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

When do you plan to release the BETA?

unfortunatelly we still not posted the follow up on yesterday's meeting there http://community.jboss.org/wiki/RichFacesTeamMeetingInformation (could be usefull in future if  you want to check our plans periodically)

but as you see there - http://community.jboss.org/message/545636#545636 release is comming

If I check out the project now, and build it myself - what components will not work?

what we have for now in readme.txt from ui module attached. you could use new richfaecs-showcase application after build to see them in action.

Will JSF2 VDL and functionality of custom components like here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu2/index.html#tip3 work?

It's completelly JSF 2 based branch. So all the JSF 2 features supported out of the box.