Javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException: viewId:/greeting.jsp - View /

Question

I'm new to JSF and I am trying to learn it, I tried the first example that comes with JavaEE Tutorial:
I was successfully able to run the guessNumber application on Tomcat 6.x
I left Tomcat and the app idel for a while, when I returned I tried to refresh the page and got this exception , instead of the usual page:
javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException: viewId:/greeting.jsp - View /greeting.jsp could not be restored.
     com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.execute(RestoreViewPhase.java:185)
     com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:251)
     com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:117)
     javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:244)Then I did an ant clean build on the application and shutdown tomcat and restarted it, to try this example again, but the above error reoccurs.
Has anyone solved this exception or know anything about what coudl be the cause?
I've already tried Google, but couldn't find a response from anyone that solved it yet.
Many thanks for your help.

Answer 1

I just solved this problem.
Even though I had shut-down Tomcat, I was still using the same browser instance.
When I closed the old instance and used a new browser instance of Firefox - it displayed normally.
However, I have another problem ( a different one) - when I try to open the app in Internet Explorer 7, instead of rendering the JSP page , IE asks me to download it.
And the file type has changed from JSP to jsp_auto_file , but IE is was rendering this page properly - I don't know what's causing it to not render it now.
Also IE shows a default pop-up blocker when I try to load the above example.
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