After I started the portletbridge 3.1.3 GA, my Facelets CompositionComponents aren't displayed anymore. No error, it just shows nothing in the portlet. It used to work when using the AjaxFacesPortlet class directly. I have fished through all the threads and googled , but can't find what I missed yet.

My envirorment: Liferay 434 portal, portletbridge-api-3.1.3.GA.jar,portletbridge-impl-3.1.3.GA.jar,richfaces 3.1.3.GA, JSF Sun RI 12, facelet 1.1.12

One note--I also tried portletbridge 3.2 snapshot ans richfaces 32 snapshot, but am getting the same result--portlet window comes up empty.

Here is my faces-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.2" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">
 <application>
 <view-handler>org.ajax4jsf.portlet.application.PortletViewHandler</view-handler>
<state-manager>org.ajax4jsf.portlet.application.PortalStateManager</state-manager>
 </application>
 <factory>

 <faces-context-factory>

 org.ajax4jsf.portlet.context.FacesContextFactoryImpl

 </faces-context-factory>

 </factory>
</faces-config>

Here is the portlet.xml:

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

<portlet-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd">
 <portlet>
 <portlet-name>richfacesPortlet</portlet-name>
 <display-name>Sample Richfaces Portlet</display-name>

 <portlet-class>javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet</portlet-class>
 <init-param>

 <name>javax.portlet.faces.defaultViewId.view</name>

 <value>/test.xhtml</value>

 </init-param>
 <!-- disable portlet caching -->
 <expiration-cache>-1</expiration-cache>
 <supports>
 <mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
 <portlet-mode>view</portlet-mode>

 </supports>
 <portlet-info>
 <title>Sample Richfaces Portlet by Michael Karas</title>
 <short-title>Sample Richfaces Portlet</short-title>
 <keywords>Sample Richfaces Portlet</keywords>
 </portlet-info>
 <security-role-ref>
 <role-name>administrator</role-name>
 </security-role-ref>
 <security-role-ref>
 <role-name>guest</role-name>
 </security-role-ref>
 <security-role-ref>
 <role-name>power-user</role-name>
 </security-role-ref>
 <security-role-ref>
 <role-name>user</role-name>
 </security-role-ref>
 </portlet>
</portlet-app>

here is my web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 <display-name>Richfaces Portlet</display-name>
 <description>Richfaces Portlet</description>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
 <param-value>server</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <!-- Facelet configuration -->
 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.SKIP_COMMENTS</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <!-- needed for portlet environment -->
 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.VIEW_HANDLERS</param-name>
 <param-value>org.ajax4jsf.portlet.application.FaceletPortletViewHandler</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.COMPRESS_SCRIPT</param-name>
 <param-value>false</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <!-- Use Documents Saved as *.xhtml -->
 <context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
 <param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
 </context-param>


 <!-- RichFaces and ajax4jsf settings -->
 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.SKIN</param-name>
 <param-value>blueSky</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <filter>
 <display-name>Ajax4jsf Filter</display-name>
 <filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
 <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
 </filter>
 <filter-mapping>
 <filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
 <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
 <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
 <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
 <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
 </filter-mapping>

 <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>
 <session-config>
 <session-timeout>
 30
 </session-timeout>
 </session-config>
 <welcome-file-list>
 <welcome-file>test.xhtml</welcome-file>
 </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

My porlet is simple --only one single rich tag in one single xhtml page:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<a4j:portlet xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.ajax4jsf.org/rich"
 xmlns:a4j="https://ajax4jsf.dev.java.net/ajax">

<f:view>
 <rich:simpleTogglePanel switchType="ajax">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="Ajax Switched toogle panel"/>
 </f:facet>
 <h:outputText value="hello world - from the ajaxified richfaces portlet ;)" />
 </rich:simpleTogglePanel>
</f:view>
</a4j:portlet>

I used to use AjaxFacesPortlet directly, and put "org.ajax4jsf.portlet.PortletAjaxContext" in the "faces-config.xml". It kind of worked, but it has issues with JSF managed bean session scope whenver I use Ajax. Does this sounds familiar?

What have I missed?
Thanks a million!