Exception with seam mail delivery, not asynchronously!

[swenvogel]

Hi,

i am new to seam, and trying to code a little online survey with email confirmation. I always get the following exception on rendering the email page (emailConfirmation.xhtml).

Caused by: org.jboss.seam.InstantiationException: Could not instantiate Seam component: org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.facesContextFactory
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory: javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory

I already googled for this exception and find some related post's. But the majority of the post's refer to
asynchronous mail processing. When i open the mail page from the browser everything works fine.

When i deploy the project the component org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.facesContextFactory is successfully installed.

[Initialization] Installing components...
[Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.facesContextFactory, scope: APPLICATION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.ui.facelet.RendererFacesContextFactory

Developing environment:

• Seam: 2.1.1.GA


• JBossAs: 5.0.1.GA

Here are the relevant code part's:

The stateless session bean for handling survey actions

I send the email in the finishSurvey() method.

@Stateless
@Name("surveyAction")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class SurveyAction implements SurveyActionLocal {

     @PersistenceContext
     private EntityManager em;

     @In(create = true)
     private Renderer renderer;

     @DataModel
     private List<Survey> surveys;

     @DataModelSelection
     @In(required = false)
     @Out(required = false)
     private Survey selectedSurvey;

     @Factory(value = "surveys")
     public void initSurveys() {
          surveys = em.createQuery("from Survey").getResultList();
     }

     @Begin
     public String beginSurvey(String surveyName, String page) {
          selectedSurvey = new Survey();
          selectedSurvey.setName(surveyName);

          return page;
     }

     public String continueTo(String page) {
          return page;
     }

     @End
     public String finishSurvey() {
          selectedSurvey.setCreationDate(new Date());
          em.persist(selectedSurvey);

          // Send a email confirmation
          renderer.render("/mail/emailConfirmation.xhtml");

          return "/survey_end.xhtml";
     }

     public String showSurvey() {
          return "/admin/show_survey.xhtml";
     }

     public String saveSurvey() {
          selectedSurvey = em.merge(selectedSurvey);

          return "saved";
     }

     public String deleteSurvey() {
          selectedSurvey = em.merge(selectedSurvey);
          em.remove(selectedSurvey);

          selectedSurvey = null;
          surveys = null;
                    
          return "deleted";
     }

}

The test confirmation email (emailConfirmation.xhtml)

<m:message xmlns:m="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail">
     
     <m:from name="vogel" address="[e-mail]" />
     <m:to name="vogel">[e-mail]</m:to>
     <m:subject>Survey email confirmation</m:subject>
     
     <m:body type="plain">
          test message
     </m:body>
     
</m:message>

Thank's for your help ...

[clerum]

I had the same issue JIRA ISSUE

I went back to 4.2.3.GA and everything worked.

Hoping that 2.1.2 GA fixes this

[swenvogel]

Thanks for you answer, i will try it with AS 4.2.3.GA tomorrow and will post the result back.

[swenvogel]

YES,

it really works with AS 4.2.3.GA. But i don't understand that such a fundamental feature like mailing doesn't work in 5.0.1.GA - a stable realase. And besides the JIRA ISSUE was created on 14/Oct/08 !!!

[clerum]

From the JIRA Issue it looks to be resolved in 2.1.2 CR1 which you can snag from the SVN tag, or I think it was planned for release around today Dev List I haven't tried it yet.

Just looks like this bug hit around the wrong time, it missed 2.1.1 GA and 2.1.2 got put on the back burner due to Web Beans push.