Forwarding from non-existing pages

[jmiettin]

My problem is simple: I would like to have all requests to non-existing pages (e.g. /foo or /foo.seam) redirected to starting page with a simple message.
My approach was to create notFound.seam and accompanying redirector bean as it seemed that I could not do everything I wanted in pages.xml with execute and redirect implicit object.

So now I have in web.xml:
 

  <error-page>
        <error-code>404</error-code>
        <location>/notFound.seam</location>
    </error-page>

in pages.xml:

   <page view-id="/notFound.xhtml" login-required="true">
        <action execute="#{redirector.notFoundRedirect}"/>
    </page>

And in Redirector.java:

@Stateless
@Name("redirector")
public class Redirector implements RedirectorAction {
   @Override
    public String notFoundRedirect() {
        final Redirect redir = Redirect.instance();
        redir.setParameter("message", "page_not_available");
        redir.setViewId("/home.seam");
        redir.execute();
        return "success";
    }
}

Redirects from non-existing pages that do not end in *.seam are forwarded ok but when I request doesnotexist.seam, the forwarding is first
done at least partially (the bean method is called).

Then in restore view-phase, invoked through ApplicationDispatcher#doForward, SeamPhaseListener#commitOrRollback throws IllegalStateException that is caused
by javax.ejb.NoSuchEJBException: Could not find stateful bean: a124i-h6fdb0-g6lsexs5-1-g6lu8csz-aj.

To me it seems that org.jboss.ejb3.cache.simple.SimpleStatefulCache#get that throws this exception tries to find a bean for the given address but does not find it.

What would be the correct way to do such redirects? In what way am I misusing Seam in my solution?

[kenfrommera]

I was going to implement the same behavior in my application, but was stopped by the same problem.
I posted the question in this thread.

Unfortunately, no reply was received.

After that, I created Jira Issue because I think it is Seam bug. At first this issue was rejected with suggestion to use Seam forum to find the solution. I re-opened it providing the link to this forum and after that it was simply deleted without any explanation.

[jmiettin]

It seems that we have the same problem.

I will wait a bit, hoping for another reply, then try again to the bottom of this and possibly open a Jira issue.

The whole thing baffles me as I am trying to do quite a simple thing that seems to be impossible. I am probably just doing something in a non-Seamy way yet scanning through Seam community documentation for redirect left me as puzzled as ever.

[cash1981]

Why did you create this component as a Stateless EJB? Try either a Stateful or a normal java bean. That might work better when I see your exception.

Also a @AutoCreate would help on your @Stateless

[jmiettin]

I actually dropped my notfound page and the accompanying bean and now I only have the following thing is web.xml:

    <error-page>
        <error-code>404</error-code>
        <location>/home.seam?message=page_not_available</location>
    </error-page>

This works ok when requesting non-existent resources that do not end in .seam but then requesting doesnotexist.seam, I get the same stack trace as Konstantin, i.e.
java.lang.IllegalStateException with message: Could not commit transaction
Caused by javax.ejb.NoSuchEJBException with message: Could not find stateful bean: a124i-ku0fc0-g6n821lj-1-g6n8bmrx-9x
The full stack trace is available at Pastebin.

So my question remains: Is forwarding requests to non-existing Seamy resources illegal or am I just doing it wrong?