I have successfully run the Registration example from the Seam download but I wanted to build my own copy by following the tutorial in the documentation. I want to use my own build.xml so that I am sure I understand what is required to deploy a Seam app.

The code compiles and appears to deploy properly but the JSP displays three "Conversion error" messages when I press the submit button. The log displays the following errors:

2006-05-19 07:00:23,459 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.Component] instantiating Seam component: org.jboss.seam.core.manager
2006-05-19 07:00:23,459 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.core.Manager] No stored conversation
2006-05-19 07:00:23,459 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Contexts] found in application context: org.jboss.seam.core.init
2006-05-19 07:00:23,459 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener] After restore view, conversation context: ConversationContext(2)
2006-05-19 07:00:23,469 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamVariableResolver] resolving name: user
2006-05-19 07:00:23,469 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.Component] seam component not found: user
2006-05-19 07:00:23,469 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamVariableResolver] could not resolve name
2006-05-19 07:00:23,499 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamVariableResolver] resolving name: user
2006-05-19 07:00:23,499 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.Component] seam component not found: user
2006-05-19 07:00:23,499 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamVariableResolver] could not resolve name
2006-05-19 07:00:23,499 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamVariableResolver] resolving name: user
2006-05-19 07:00:23,499 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.Component] seam component not found: user
2006-05-19 07:00:23,499 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamVariableResolver] could not resolve name
2006-05-19 07:00:23,509 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener] Before saving state
2006-05-19 07:00:23,509 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.core.Manager] Discarding conversation state: 2
2006-05-19 07:00:23,519 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Lifecycle] After render response, destroying contexts
2006-05-19 07:00:23,519 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Lifecycle] flushing business process context
2006-05-19 07:00:23,519 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.BusinessProcessContext] no process instance to persist business process state
2006-05-19 07:00:23,519 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Lifecycle] destroying event context
2006-05-19 07:00:23,519 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Contexts] destroying: org.jboss.seam.core.manager
2006-05-19 07:00:23,519 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Lifecycle] destroying conversation context
2006-05-19 07:00:23,519 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Lifecycle] flushing server-side conversation context
2006-05-19 07:00:23,519 DEBUG [org.jboss.seam.contexts.Lifecycle] <<< End web request

Here are my build.properties:

genasys.home = C:/com.genasys.codecontrol/
jboss.home = C:/jboss-4.0.3SP1/
myant.home = C:/apache-ant-1.6.1/
ant.libs = ${myant.home}lib/ant.jar
commons.logging.home = ${jboss.home}lib/
utility.libs = ${genasys.home}common/web/utilities/
seam.home = C:/jboss-seam-1.0beta2/
seam.libs = ${seam.home}jboss-seam.jar:${seam.home}jboss-seam-ui.jar
ui.libs = ${seam.home}lib/myfaces-impl.jar:${seam.home}lib/myfaces-api.jar
jboss.server = ${jboss.home}server/all/
bussvc.libs = ${jboss.server}lib/javax.servlet.jar:${jboss.server}deploy/ejb3.deployer/jboss-ejb3.jar:${jboss.server}deploy/ejb3.deployer/jboss-ejb3x.jar:${jboss.server}deploy/ejb3.deployer/jboss-annotations-ejb3.jar:${jboss.server}deploy/ejb3.deployer/ejb3-persistence.jar:${jboss.server}deploy/ejb3.deployer/hibernate-annotations.jar
log4j.home = ${jboss.server}lib/
log4j.libs = ${log4j.home}log4j.jar:${commons.logging.home}commons-logging.jar:${commons.logging.home}commons-logging-api.jar
build.classpath = ${seam.libs}:${ui.libs}:${ant.libs}:${log4j.libs}:${bussvc.libs}

Here is my build.xml:

<project name="SEAMRegistration" default="deploy">

 <!-- Load user environment parameters -->
 <!-- This should define the property build.classpath -->
 <property file="build.properties" />

 <!-- Define our class path -->
 <path id="build.class.path">
 <pathelement path="${build.classpath}"/>
 </path>

 <!-- ============================================================= -->
 <!-- Directory settings -->
 <!-- ============================================================= -->

 <!-- Physical source directories -->
 <property name="src.config.dir" value="src/config" />
 <property name="src.ejb.dir" value="src/ejb" />
 <property name="src.web.dir" value="src/web" />
 <property name="src.webpages.dir" value="${src.web.dir}/genasys/pages/seam/registration" />
 <property name="src.webconfig.dir" value="${src.config.dir}/web" />
 <property name="src.ejbconfig.dir" value="${src.config.dir}/ejb" />

 <!-- Setup directory structure -->
 <target name="init" depends="check-environment">
 <tstamp/>
 <mkdir dir="dist"/>
 <mkdir dir="build"/>
 <mkdir dir="build/earstage"/>
 <mkdir dir="build/ejbstage/META-INF"/>

 </target>

 <!-- Set filename for default persistence.xml file -->
 <target name="noschema">
 <property name="persistence.filename" value="persistence_with_validate.xml" />
 </target>

 <!-- Set filename for new schema in persistence.xml file -->
 <target name="newschema">
 <property name="persistence.filename" value="persistence_with_create.xml" />
 </target>

 <!-- Remove directory structure structure -->
 <target name="clean" description="Removes all generated files">
 <delete includeEmptyDirs="true" quiet="true">
 <fileset dir="dist"/>
 <fileset dir="build"/>
 </delete>
 </target>

 <!-- ============================================================= -->
 <!-- Highlevel user tasks -->
 <!-- ============================================================= -->

 <target name="build" depends="init,jars"
 description="Builds ejb.jar and web.war"/>

 <target name="deploy" depends="noschema,build"
 description="Deploys generated ear in JBoss">
 <copy todir="${jboss.server}deploy" >
 <fileset dir="dist/" includes="*.ear" />
 </copy>
 </target>

 <target name="deploy-new-schema" depends="newschema,build"
 description="Deploys generated ear in JBoss">
 <copy todir="${jboss.server}deploy" >
 <fileset dir="dist/" includes="*.ear" />
 </copy>
 </target>

 <target name="deploy-ds" depends="build"
 description="Deploys only the data source to JBoss">
 <copy todir="${jboss.server}deploy" >
 <fileset dir="dist/" includes="mysql-seam-registration-ds.xml" />
 </copy>
 </target>

 <!-- ============================================================= -->
 <!-- Internal subtasks -->
 <!-- ============================================================= -->

 <!-- Compile all files -->
 <target name="compile" depends="init">

 <!-- Compile EJB classes -->
 <javac destdir="build/ejbstage" includes="**/*.java"
 includeAntRuntime="false">
 <src path="${src.ejb.dir}" />
 <classpath>
 <path refid="build.class.path" />
 </classpath>
 </javac>

 </target>

 <!-- Create the archive structures on disk, first -->
 <target name="copystages" depends="init,compile">
 <!-- Copy the web pages and message resource file -->
 <copy todir="build/webstage/">
 <fileset dir="${src.webpages.dir}" includes="**/*.jsp"/>
 </copy>
 <!-- Copy the web configuration files -->
 <copy todir="build/webstage/WEB-INF/">
 <fileset dir="${src.webconfig.dir}" includes="*.xml"/>
 </copy>
 <!-- Copy the ejb configuration files -->
 <copy file="${src.ejbconfig.dir}/${persistence.filename}"
 tofile="build/ejbstage/META-INF/persistence.xml"
 overwrite="true"/>

 </target>

 <!-- Create the EJB jar, the web WAR and the application EAR -->
 <target name="jars" depends="copystages">
 <!-- Put everything in build/ejbstage into seam-registration.jar. -->
 <jar jarfile="build/earstage/seam-registration.jar">
 <fileset dir="build/utilities/" includes="**/*"/>
 <fileset dir="build/ejbstage/" includes="**/*"/>
 <manifest>
 <attribute name="Class-Path" value="jboss-seam.jar"/>
 </manifest>
 </jar>

 <!-- Put everything in build/webstage into seam-registration.war. -->
 <jar jarfile="build/earstage/seam-registration.war">
 <fileset dir="build/webstage/" includes="**/*"/>
 <manifest>
 <attribute name="Class-Path" value="jboss-seam.jar"/>
 </manifest>
 </jar>
 <!-- Put application deployment descriptor in META-INF -->
 <copy todir="build/earstage/META-INF/">
 <fileset dir="${src.config.dir}" includes="application.xml"/>
 <fileset dir="${src.config.dir}" includes="jboss-app.xml"/>
 </copy>
 <!-- Put everything in build/earstage into seam-registration.ear. -->
 <jar jarfile="dist/seam-registration.ear">
 <fileset dir="${seam.home}" includes="jboss-seam.jar"/>
 <fileset dir="build/earstage/" includes="**/*"/>
 </jar>
 <!-- Put MySQL DataSource Descriptor into distribution directory -->
 <copy todir="dist/">
 <fileset dir="${src.config.dir}" includes="mysql-seam-registration-ds.xml"/>
 </copy>
 </target>

 <target name="check-environment">
 <antcall target="check-buildclasspath"/>

 <available property="ant.present"
 classname="org.apache.tools.ant.types.EnumeratedAttribute"
 classpathref="build.class.path" />
 <antcall target="wrong-ant"/>

 <available property="log4j.present"
 classname="org.apache.log4j.Category"
 classpathref="build.class.path" />
 <antcall target="wrong-log4j"/>

 <available property="j2ee.present"
 classname="javax.persistence.Entity"
 classpathref="build.class.path" />
 <antcall target="wrong-j2ee"/>


 </target>

 <target name="check-buildclasspath" unless="build.classpath">
 <fail>
 Property "build.classpath" is not set. Please use the file
 "build.properties" in the directory ${basedir} to set
 this property. It must list all external jars required
 for the build to succeed. "build.properties.sample"
 provides an example on how to set it up.
 </fail>
 </target>

 <target name="wrong-ant" unless="ant.present">
 <fail>
 Property "build.classpath" is set but it doesn't seem
 to contain the ant jar.
 </fail>
 </target>

 <target name="wrong-log4j" unless="log4j.present">
 <fail>
 Property "build.classpath" is set but it doesn't seem
 to contain the log4j jar.
 </fail>
 </target>

 <target name="wrong-j2ee" unless="j2ee.present">
 <fail>
 Property "build.classpath" is set but it doesn't seem
 to contain the J2EE jars.
 </fail>
 </target>

</project>

The .jar, .war, and .ear filese seem to be identical to those created by the example build.

Any suggestions to account for the error would be appreciated.

Doug Orr