Seam Faces and Seam Persistence not playing well together?

[sunfire]

I created a very simple war project running on AS6 CR1. Now I managed to get it working when I use only either Seam Faces 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT or Seam Persistence 3.0.0.Beta1. BUT as soon as I want to add both modules to the project I get an Exception when opening the JSF page:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not start transaction
     at org.jboss.seam.faces.transaction.TransactionPhaseListener.begin(TransactionPhaseListener.java:144)
     at org.jboss.seam.faces.transaction.TransactionPhaseListener.begin(TransactionPhaseListener.java:129)
     at org.jboss.seam.faces.transaction.TransactionPhaseListener.handleTransactionsBeforePhase(TransactionPhaseListener.java:106)
     at org.jboss.seam.faces.transaction.TransactionPhaseListener.beforePhase(TransactionPhaseListener.java:82)
     at org.jboss.seam.faces.event.DelegatingPhaseListener.beforePhase(DelegatingPhaseListener.java:56)
     at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.handleBeforePhase(Phase.java:224)
     at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:95)
     at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.doPhase(RestoreViewPhase.java:107)
     at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:114)
     at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:308)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:324)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:242)
     at org.jboss.weld.servlet.ConversationPropagationFilter.doFilter(ConversationPropagationFilter.java:67)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:274)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:242)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:275)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
     at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:181)
     at org.jboss.modcluster.catalina.CatalinaContext$RequestListenerValve.event(CatalinaContext.java:285)
     at org.jboss.modcluster.catalina.CatalinaContext$RequestListenerValve.invoke(CatalinaContext.java:261)
     at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:88)
     at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:100)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
     at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
     at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
     at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.request.ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.invoke(ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.java:53)
     at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:362)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:877)
     at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:653)
     at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:951)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
     at org.jboss.seam.faces.transaction.TransactionPhaseListener.begin(TransactionPhaseListener.java:136)
     ... 31 more

Any ideas what is going wrong?

[andrewwheeler]

Well I've got the same issue. I was running seam3 faces beta1 and added seam3 persistence beta1 and I got the following error:

java.lang.NullPointerException
     at org.jboss.seam.faces.viewdata.ViewDataStoreImpl.getDataForCurrentViewId(ViewDataStoreImpl.java:97)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

I saw that this was fixed in SNAPSHOT so I changed my maven version to SNAPSHOT. Now there is a class conflict with weld extensions for seam faces and persistence. It looks like seam faces snapshot wants weld extension alpha1 and seam persistence wants weld extension beta1. I tried forcing an exclusion so the new version wins, but they are not backward compatible so I get a class not found exception:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.weld.extensions.annotated.AnnotatedTypeBuilder

I can't see a way forward other than excluding one of the modules from my project.

[lfryc]

Hi guys, this seems to be similar to my issue ( SEAMFACES-62 ).

[andrewwheeler]

Well if I get desperate I'll try that solution. What I'd really, really like is for the SNAPSHOT version of each sub-project to use the same dependency versions.