1 Reply Latest reply on Dec 4, 2007 2:26 PM by wbossons

    Ajax4jsf or RichFaces question regarding NetBeans and Web Co

    wbossons

      Hello,

      I recently ran into an issue when my project was forced to move to Netbeans 6, where the ajax commandLinks threw exceptions during the rendering phase.

      The scenario is that the project ide platform was moved from Netbeans 5.5.1 to Netbeans 6, and some of the libraries were changed. We moved from using Studio Creator web ui runtime library to the Web Components library that comes with Netbeans. (Woodstock?)

      Since that change, the ajax4jsf commandLinks which I was dynamically writing from a custom component will not render. They explode in the .encodeBegin method.

      The error I see is:

      [#|2007-11-30T17:11:40.546-0500|SEVERE|sun-appserver9.1|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=24;_Thread
      ame=httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-0;_RequestID=a7ec622a-6736-4f09-95f1-dc9c11ad6569;|WebModule[/albatross]null
      java.lang.NullPointerException
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.AjaxRendererUtils.buildAjaxFunction(AjaxRendererUtils.java:368)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.AjaxRendererUtils.buildAjaxFunction(AjaxRendererUtils.java:347)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.AjaxRendererUtils.buildOnEvent(AjaxRendererUtils.java:156)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.AjaxRendererUtils.buildOnClick(AjaxRendererUtils.java:131)
      at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.AjaxCommandRendererBase.getOnClick(AjaxCommandRendererBase.java:66)
      at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.html.CommandLinkRenderer.doEncodeBegin(CommandLinkRenderer.java:97)
      at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.html.CommandLinkRenderer.doEncodeBegin(CommandLinkRenderer.java:88)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.renderer.RendererBase.encodeBegin(RendererBase.java:101)
      at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeBegin(UIComponentBase.java:788)
      at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:884)
      at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:892)
      at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:137)
      at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:812)
      at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:886)
      at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:892)
      at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:892)
      at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:892)
      at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.doRenderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:245)
      at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:176)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:260)
      at com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.faces.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:320)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:260)
      at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:106)
      at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251)
      at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:144)
      at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:411)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:317)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:127)
      at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:277)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:230)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:288)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:271)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:202)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:94)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:206)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:571)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1080)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:150)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:632)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:577)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:571)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:1080)
      at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:268)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(DefaultProcessorTask.java:6
      7)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.doProcess(DefaultProcessorTask.java:568)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultProcessorTask.process(DefaultProcessorTask.java:813)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.executeProcessorTask(DefaultReadTask.java:339)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:261)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.DefaultReadTask.doTask(DefaultReadTask.java:212)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.portunif.PortUnificationPipeline$PUTask.doTask(PortUnificationPipeline.java:361)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:265)
      at com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ssl.SSLWorkerThread.run(SSLWorkerThread.java:106)
      |#]

      The jars included in the new library are below. Is there a way to work around this by configuring the application (in web.xml?)?

      jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/webui-jsf.jar!/
      jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/commons-fileupload-1.0.jar!/
      jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/json-2.jar!/
      jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/prototype-1.5.0.jar!/
      jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/dojo-0.9.0.jar!/
      jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/jsf-extensions-common-0.1.jar!/
      jar:nbinst:///modules/ext/jsf-extensions-dynamic-faces-0.1.jar!/

      Thanks,

      ..\wb