WARNING: Bean Validator could not be instantiated

[gs_noe]

Using: RichFaces 3.3.2.SR1, Tomcat 6.0.20

I have been getting the following stack trace when I use the <rich:ajaxValidator> tag with the onblur event:

WARNING: Bean Validator could not be instantiated
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/validation/MessageInterpolator
 at org.richfaces.validator.ObjectValidator.createInstance(ObjectValidator.java:54)
 at org.richfaces.validator.ObjectValidator.getInstance(ObjectValidator.java:85)
 at org.richfaces.validator.FacesBeanValidator.validate(FacesBeanValidator.java:103)
 at org.richfaces.component.html.HtmlInputText.validateValue(HtmlInputText.java:52)
 at javax.faces.component.UIInput.validate(UIInput.java:888)
 at javax.faces.component.UIInput.executeValidate(UIInput.java:1085)
 at javax.faces.component.UIInput.processValidators(UIInput.java:685)
 at org.ajax4jsf.component.AjaxViewRoot$3.invokeContextCallback(AjaxViewRoot.java:442)
 at org.ajax4jsf.component.ContextCallbackWrapper.invokeContextCallback(ContextCallbackWrapper.java:44)
 at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.invokeOnComponent(UIComponent.java:722)
 ... bunch more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.validation.MessageInterpolator
 at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1387)
 at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1233)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
 ... 56 more

The funny thing is that the actual validation is still working just fine. Is this something to worry about?

Relevant Code:

<a4j:form id="frmPhotosToPdf">
 <h:column>
 <h:outputLabel value="#{msgs.photo_to_pdf_label_pdf_title}" for="txtPdfTitle" style="font-weight:bold;"/><br/>
 <h:inputText value="#{photoToPDFBean.pdfTitle}" id="txtPdfTitle" maxlength="40" validatorMessage="Maximum 40 characters.">
 <f:validateLength maximum="10"/>
 <rich:ajaxValidator event="onblur"/>
 </h:inputText><br/>
 <rich:message for="txtPdfTitle" errorClass="errorMessage">
 <f:facet name="errorMarker">
 <h:graphicImage value="/icons/exclamation.png" class="errorMarker"/>
 </f:facet>
 </rich:message>
 </h:column>
</a4j:form>

[gs_noe]

Just found out that while validation works, the error is somehow interfering with ajax re-rendering of other components on the page...

[ziyang]

Hi,

Could you explain more about the interference? Did you get rid of this problem? What's your solution? I ran into the same problem.

Thanks a lot.

Ziyang

[ilya40umov]

It looks like it could be fixed in 3.3.3. See https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-8149?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel