Hi Kike Gil

     I will look at updating my Netbeans and see if that fixes it being displayed as an option.

     I will also just try writing it and see if it works as desired.

Thanks, much appreciated.

I upgraded Netbeans to 7.0 and it still does not see the 'Select' component in the list

If I manually write the code and try and run it, I get the following error: -

          PWC6142: No tag "select" defined in tag library imported with prefix "rich"

The TAG library I am referencing is

          <%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/rich" prefix="rich"%>

I guess its not seeing it in the JAR files.

Hi Nick,

I have downloaded and using RF 4.x using Netbeans 7.0, but the 'rich' tag library is not recognised neither is the a4j tag library.

I have downloaded Eclipse and referenced the RF 4.x and it sees the 'rich' and 'a4j' tag libraries and I am able to find the 'select' component.

Could it be a problem in Netbeans 7.0 or is it a problem in the RF 4.x?

I have attempted to use the 'select' component and Eclipse does not render it on a page, to the right of 'Select User: ' should be the 'select' component, but it is not rendered.  In fact I tried to render a few rich components and none of them rendered???

<!

DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

html xmlns=

"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

ui:composition template="/WEB-INF/templates/basicTemplete.xhtml"

>

ui:composition

>

</

html

>

Hi Ilya,

1) Thanks for the update, yes I thought I'd read somewhere about some tag issues in RF release 4.0.  When will RF 4.0.1 be available?

2) When I say Eclipse does not render it, I mean when I select run it to show me the working version in a in-line brower, the richfaces components are not shown on the page at all.  Even the older components if I try and use those, they are not shown either.  Just the standard <h> components are. 

If I copy the code from http://richfaces-showcase.appspot.com/richfaces/component-sample.jsf?demo=select&skin=blueSky and alter the second example to use just <f:selectItem> items instead of coming from a back end bean for ease. 

This is what I see:-

Notice all the richface components are not visible/rendered?

Perhaps I need to deploy the WAR file to a remote Application Server and see if they are rendered there.

Thanks again for the update.

Hi Ilya, Nick

I have since deployed using Eclipse and I have found I can invoke a *.xhtml and have it render some random data:

     <h:inputText value="#{sayHello.subject}"/><br/>

And this is populated from a back end bean. 

As you can see the <h: tags get rendered, so this is being processed by the JSF servlet.

Now if I try to work with RichFaces 4.0 in a XHTML format

However I still have a problem with RichFaces 4, yet in my xhtml file I am able to be prompted to select the RichFaces tags I want to use.

I have checked my JSF configuration

web.xml

===========

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">

<display-name>MyJSF</display-name>

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>

<param-value>Development</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>facelets.BUILD_BEFORE_RESTORE</param-name>

<param-value>false</param-value>

</context-param>

<display-name>rich</display-name>

<servlet>

<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>

<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>

</servlet-mapping>

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>

<param-value>.xhtml</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>

<param-value>.jsp</param-value>

</context-param>

<session-config>

<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>

</session-config>

<welcome-file-list>

<welcome-file>faces/Login.xhtml</welcome-file>

</welcome-file-list>

<context-param>

<param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>

<param-value>darkX</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>

<param-value>server</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>com.sun.faces.enableRestoreView11Compatibility</param-name>

<param-value>true</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>org.ajax4jsf.VIEW_HANDLERS</param-name>

<param-value>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</param-value>

</context-param>

</web-app>

The only thing I don't have is in faces_config.xml and if I add it it indicates it can't find it

"Cannot find fully qualified class: com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler"

         <application>

    <view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>

  </application>

The xhtml page itself contains the following, but it still won't render the RichFaces components.  This is becoming very frustrating.

I am using some templates of sort

Login.xhtml
===========

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"   
  xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"   
  xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"   
  xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"   
  xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
 
  <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />  
   <title>Example</title>
  </head>
 
  <h:body>
   <f:view>    
    <h:form>

     <div id="header">
         <ui:insert name="header">
             <ui:include src="/Header.xhtml"/>
         </ui:insert>
     </div>
    
     <div id="content">
         <ui:insert name="content">
          <ui:include src="/LoginContent.xhtml"/>
         </ui:insert>
    
     </div>
    
     <div id="footer">
         <ui:insert name="footer">
             <ui:include src="Footer.xhtml"/>
         </ui:insert>
     </div>
    </h:form>
   </f:view>
  </h:body>
</html>

Header.xhtml
============

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"   
  xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"   
  xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"   
  xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"   
  xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
<h:body>
<div style="width:100%;font-size:36px;line-height:48px;background-color:navy;color:white">My Facelet Application Header</div>
</h:body>
</html>

LoginContent.xhtml
===============

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"   
  xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"   
  xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"   
  xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"   
  xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
 
  <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />  
   <title>Example</title>
  </head>
 
  <h:body>
   <f:subview id="hello">    
    <h:form>

     <p>In the next example you can manually enter values, and any invalid entries are not allowed.</p>          
    
     <rich:panel style="width:220px;">            
      <f:facet name="header">                
       <h:outputText value="Select with manual input"></h:outputText>            
      </f:facet>
     
                    
       
      <rich:select  enableManualInput="true"               
          defaultLabel="start typing for select">                
        <f:selectItem itemValue="Alex" itemLabel="Alex" />                
        <f:selectItem itemValue="Bob" itemLabel="Bob" />                
        <f:selectItem itemValue="Carl" itemLabel="Carl" />                
        <f:selectItem itemValue="Daniel" itemLabel="Daniel" />                
        <f:selectItem itemValue="Elvis" itemLabel="Elvis" />             
      </rich:select>        
      </rich:panel>
    </h:form>
   </f:subview>     
  </h:body>
</html>

Footer.xhtml
=================

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"   
  xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"   
  xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"   
  xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"   
  xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
<h:head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Footer</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<div style="background-color:navy;width:100%;color:white">This is our footer</div>
</h:body>
</html>

I have read that using JSF2.0 <f:view> is not manditory.

Is there anything else in my configuration that could be wrong?

Also checked the following link, and I have removed VIEW_HANDLERS and I guess com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler is not required in faces-config.xml either as a result of the migration steps

http://community.jboss.org/wiki/RichFacesMigrationGuide33x-4xMigration-Upgrading