Create custom RichFaces component using Practical RichFaces 2nd edition

[mkozeny]

Hi to all,

I am following Ilya Shaikovsky's book Practical RichFaces 2nd edition and trying to build new one. I am not very familiar with maven, but this part of dependency

<dependency>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

during processing command

mvn install

cause me following error

[FATAL ERROR] Container realm = plexus.core

urls[0] = file:/C:/Program Files/apache-maven-2.2.1/lib/maven-2.2.1-uber.jar

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ERROR] FATAL ERROR

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/faces/component/UIComponent

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] Trace

java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/faces/component/UIComponent

when I remove this dependency from pom.xml file, then compiling is OK, but I did not get required UISpinner.java class in generated target.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

[jhuska]

Hello Martin,

IMHO the reason for this error is providing just API not real implementation as it is described at this link:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/unittesting-455385.html

(please search for the javaee-web-api in the text to find the solution)

The sollution just copied from the link mentioned above:

"You should replace the Java EE 6 API classes by the application vendor implementation. For GlassFish v3.1, the most convenient way is to use the single dependency on the embedded container:"

Was that helpful for you ?

[mkozeny]

Hello Juraj,

thanks for your reply. Yeah it really helped me, even if I am not using Maven 3 but 2. Now I have another problem, after running command mvn install for generating component class (UISpinner.java according to example) and other files, there is no component class. Files like faces-config.xml are generated, but no component.class:( I thought that it was due to that I declare no xml template for that component, but that was not the mistake.

Any ideas?:) Thanks.

[mkozeny]

My fault, it was due to bad version of RichFaces. I used 3.3.3.Final instead of 4.0.0. in maven pom.xml file.