JSF: Problem during Tomcat Startup

Question

Hi, I am having a strange problem with a JSF-application.
I am using jdk 1.3.1 (13), Tomcat 5.0.28 and the Sun JSF-Ref. implementation. On my dev-environment all is well. On the system-test environment of the customer, Tomcat would not initialize the FacesServlet claiming that it can not find the faces-config-file.
I have tries all 3 ways of referencing the config-file (put it into a jar, put faces-config.xml directly into WEB-INF, add a context-param to web.xml with the URI of the file and param-name javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES). All three work fine on my dev, none of them works on sys-test.
Funny enough, if I use the context-param in web.xml, where the web-app context is ctx, for the URI /WEB-INF/the-faces-config.xml I get an error during startup, for the URI /ctx/WEB-INF/the-faces-config.xml I don't have a problem on startup but the servlet does not actually read the config-file (you can tell from the fact that it can't resolve any of the Bean-methods).
Any idea would be much appreciated!
Cheers, Bastian

Answer 1

Hi, thanks - unfortunately that did not help. The system (in the original configuration) does find the jars ok in WEB-INF/lib (I can tell since there is code in the jar which is executed before the problems hit me and the stack-trace when it can't resolve the bean-methods is from com.sun.faces.el.impl). It looks like the beans are not actually initialized (which is consistent, since the system can't find the config-file which wires the beans).