2 Replies Latest reply on Feb 22, 2011 11:19 PM by nbelaevski

How to configure RichFaces 4.0 using Facelets and JSF2.0 ?

ms81 Feb 22, 2011 5:16 PM

I am using a simple example program using RichFaces 4.0 and Facelets(.xhtml files) but unfortunately I am not able to configure the view handler for Richfaces 4.0.

I have following libraries in my WEB-INF folder

commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-collections-3.2.jar
commons-digester-1.8.jar
commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
cssparser-0.9.5.jar
guava-r08.jar
jsf-api-2.0.4-b09.jar
jsf-impl-2.0.4-b09.jar
jstl-1.2.jar
richfaces-components-api-4.0.0.20110209-M6.jar
richfaces-components-ui-4.0.0.20110209-M6.jar
richfaces-core-api-4.0.0.20110209-M6.jar
richfaces-core-impl-4.0.0.20110209-M6.jar
sac-1.3.jar

my web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>

<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>

</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>

</servlet-mapping>

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.faces.DISABLE_FACELET_JSF_VIEWHANDLER</param-name>

<param-value>true</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>org.richfaces.enableControlSkinning</param-name>

<param-value>true</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>org.richfaces.enableControlSkinningClasses</param-name>

<param-value>false</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>

<param-value>.xhtml</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>

<param-value>server</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>

<param-value>Development</param-value>

</context-param>

<welcome-file-list>

<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>

<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>

</welcome-file-list>

<login-config>

<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>

</login-config>

</web-app>

my faces-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">

</faces-config>

index.jsp

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">

<html>

<body>

<jsp:forward page="/start.jsf" />

</body>

</html>

start.xhtml

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"

xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"

xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"

xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"

xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">

<head><title>RichFaces</title></head>

<body>

<rich:panel header="RichFaces">

<h:outputText value="Hello, looks like it's working with JSF 2.0" />

</rich:panel>

</body>

</html>

What is happening is that as I do not have any view handler so when I run the application I am being prompted to download the file from the browser? If I include jsf-facelets.jar and configure it in the faces-config.xml then i get tag lib error while deploying. See below error for reference.

INFO: Container org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/RichFacesJSF20] has already been started