Greetings,

I'm trying to do a very simple Seam test in a JBoss Portal 2.4 and it fails. The JSF is very simple:

<f:view>
<h:form>
<h:outputText value="A Test: "/>
<h:outputText value="#{hotel.address}"/>
</h:form>
</f:view>

The backing bean also:

@Name("hotel")
@Scope(CONVERSATION)
@Stateful

public class Hotel implements Serializable
{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1881413500711441951L;
private String address = "Trou Perdu";

public String getAddress()
{
return address;
}

public void setAddress(String address)
{
this.address = address;
}

@Destroy @Remove
public void destroy(){}
}

The JSF is exposed by a portlet. Running it in the portal sample project provided with Seam, as well as in a separate one, raises the following exception when the portlet is rendered:

javax.faces.FacesException: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Cannot get value for expression '#{hotel.address}'
...
Caused by java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Kind regards,

Nicolas