Email attachments and custom facelets composition components

[twhitehead.twhiteheadjm.hotmail.com]

I am trying to send a pdf attachment in an email. The pdfs are already being generated using p:document tags and are working fine.
The seam documentation said I could send pdf attachments by simply putting my p:document inside the m:attachment
However, in my pdfs I have used my own custom facelets composition components and instead of being rendered properly (as they do in the pdfs) they simply get placed as text in the pdf attachment.

Here is my email:

<m:message xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" 
xmlns:m="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" 
xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib" 
xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" 
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" 
xmlns:val="http://www.virtualfm.co.za/jsf">
...
from, to, subject
...
<m:attachment fileName="MyFile.pdf" contentType="application/pdf">
     <p:document  pageSize="A4">
          <val:pdfH1 value="My Heading" />                       
     </p:document>
</m:attachment>
<m:body>
<p>Some text</p>          
</m:body>
</m:message>

and the val:pdfH1 file

<ui:composition  xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
          xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf">
     <p:font size="20"  color="#004080" style="bold">
          <p:paragraph spacingAfter="10">#{value}</p:paragraph>
     </p:font>  
</ui:composition>

The attached pdf is rendered as

<val:pdfH1 value="My Heading"></val:pdfH1 value="My Heading"> 

If I put the contents of my tag directly into the email then it renders correctly.

I dont want to have to redo all my reports specifically formated for the email.

What I want to do is:

<m:attachment fileName="MyFile.pdf" contentType="application/pdf">
     <ui:include src="alreadyExistingReport.xhtml" />
</m:attachment>

[twhitehead.twhiteheadjm.hotmail.com]

I see my problem has been fixed in 2.1.0.BETA
JIRA - JBSEAM-3014

So I am trying to upgrade to that but cant seem to get past this error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: duplicate factory for: org.jboss.seam.web.webSession (duplicate is specified in components.xml)

I have two ear projects and one is upgraded and working, the other gives the above error. The components.xml files are identical in both projects.

components.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components"
      xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core"
      xmlns:persistence="http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence" 
      xmlns:security="http://jboss.com/products/seam/security"
      xmlns:mail="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail"
      xmlns:pdf="http://jboss.com/products/seam/document"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
      xsi:schemaLocation=
           "http://jboss.com/products/seam/core http://jboss.com/products/seam/core-2.1.xsd 
           http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence http://jboss.com/products/seam/persistence-2.1.xsd 
           http://jboss.com/products/seam/security http://jboss.com/products/seam/security-2.1.xsd
           http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail-2.1.xsd
           http://jboss.com/products/seam/document http://jboss.com/products/seam/document-2.1.xsd
           http://jboss.com/products/seam/components http://jboss.com/products/seam/components-2.1.xsd">
      <core:init debug="true" jndi-pattern="@jndiPattern@"/>
      <core:manager concurrent-request-timeout="500" 
       conversation-timeout="120000" 
       conversation-id-parameter="cid"
       parent-conversation-id-parameter="pid"/> 
      <persistence:managed-persistence-context name="entityManager"
               auto-create="true"
               persistence-unit-jndi-name="java:/crsEntityManagerFactory"/>  
      
      <security:identity authenticate-method="#{authenticator.authenticate}" remember-me="false"/>
      
      <event type="org.jboss.seam.security.notLoggedIn">
           <action execute="#{redirect.captureCurrentView}"/>
      </event>
      <event type="org.jboss.seam.security.loginSuccessful">
           <action execute="#{redirect.returnToCapturedView}"/>
      </event>
      
      <mail:mail-session host="smtp.gmail.com" port="587" username="username" password="password" tls="true"/>
     <pdf:document-store use-extensions="true" error-page="/pdfMissing.seam" />
</components>

[twhitehead.twhiteheadjm.hotmail.com]

I found that the error is because jboss is creating a temporary copy of jboss-seam.jar as can be seen here

08:39:39,953 INFO  [Initialization] reading jar:file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/crs-ear.ear/jboss-seam.jar!/META-INF/components.xml
08:39:39,953 INFO  [Initialization] reading jar:file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp6667jboss-seam.jar!/META-INF/components.xml
08:39:39,953 INFO  [Initialization] reading jar:file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/crs-ear.ear/crs.war/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-ioc.jar!/META-INF/components.xml
08:39:39,953 INFO  [Initialization] reading jar:file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/crs-ear.ear/crs.war/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-remoting.jar!/META-INF/components.xml
08:39:39,953 INFO  [Initialization] reading jar:file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/crs-ear.ear/crs.war/WEB-INF/lib/jboss-seam-ui.jar!/META-INF/components.xml

so I moved the following lines out of the jboss-seam.jar components.xml into my own components.xml

<factory name="org.jboss.seam.web.webSession" auto-create="true" scope="stateless" value="#{org.jboss.seam.web.session}" />

<factory name="facesMessages" auto-create="true" scope="stateless" value="#{org.jboss.seam.international.statusMessages}" />
 
<factory name="org.jboss.seam.faces.facesMessages" auto-create="true" scope="stateless" value="#{org.jboss.seam.international.statusMessages}" />

and it is now starting up.

However, both apps, one with the above fix and one without, give another error when I attempt to send email:

08:50:18,484 WARN  [lifecycle] executePhase(RENDER_RESPONSE 6,com.sun.faces.context.FacesContextImpl@d92bd2) threw exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory: javax.faces.application.ApplicationFactory

[pmuir]

FYI I fixed the duplicate factory problem in trunk after CR1.

Can you file a JIRA issue for your remaining problem?

[twhitehead.twhiteheadjm.hotmail.com]

I had to go back to seam 2.0.3 as I could not get email to work at all with 2.1.0

I will have another go next week and see if the problem still exists.

I do want to move to 2.1.0 as I would like to do pdf attachments, use my own tags in email, and do asynchronous mail.

I also want to try out the new authentication stuff.