ClassNotFoundException-javax.faces.application.ProjectStage - deploy of WAR

Question

Hello All,
We are trying to deploy the ViewController project, of a jsf/adf based application, to a WAR file. We are migrating our application from 10g to 11g. We have successfully gone past all the comilation errors and now trying deployment.
We were getting the following error and got around it by checking - ViewController -> rt. Click ProjectProperties -> Deployment -> Edit WAR deployment profile -> WEB-INF/LIB -> Contributors : checked jsf2.0, jstl1.2, jstl1.2tags
Error while deployment: [12:52:11 PM] [Deployer:149193]Operation 'deploy' on application 'webapp1' has failed on 'AdminServer'
[12:52:11 PM] [Deployer:149034]An exception occurred for task [Deployer:149026]deploy application webapp1 on AdminServer.: Failed to load webapp: 'webapp1.war'.
[12:52:12 PM] Weblogic Server Exception: weblogic.application.ModuleException: Failed to load webapp: 'webapp1.war'
[12:52:12 PM] Caused by: weblogic.management.DeploymentException: Error: Unresolved Webapp Library references for "ServletContext@16785362[app:webapp1 module:webapp1.war path:/coagov spec-version:2.5]", defined in weblogic.xml [Extension-Name: jsf, Specification-Version: 2, exact-match: false]
NOW, we get the following error and the deployment is unsuccessful
[04:16:59 PM] Deploying Application...
[04:19:58 PM] [Deployer:149193]Operation 'deploy' on application 'webapp1' has failed on 'AdminServer'
[04:19:58 PM] [Deployer:149034]An exception occurred for task [Deployer:149026]deploy application webapp1 on AdminServer.: javax.faces.application.ProjectStage.
[04:19:58 PM] Weblogic Server Exception: weblogic.application.WrappedDeploymentException: javax.faces.application.ProjectStage
[04:19:58 PM] See server logs or server console for more details.
[04:19:58 PM] weblogic.application.WrappedDeploymentException: javax.faces.application.ProjectStage
[04:19:58 PM] Deployment cancelled.
[04:19:58 PM] ---- Deployment incomplete ----.
[04:19:58 PM] Remote deployment failed (oracle.jdevimpl.deploy.common.Jsr88RemoteDeployer)
From log-
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.faces.application.ProjectStage
     at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLoader.java:297)
     at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:270)
     at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.findClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:64)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:305)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:246)
     at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:179)
     at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.loadClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:43)
Please help!!!
Thanks,

Answer 1

This seems like a JDeveloper packaging issue perhaps, or at least needs some knowledge of the JDeveloper packaging process:
The deployment error:
[12:52:12 PM] Caused by: weblogic.management.DeploymentException: Error: Unresolved Webapp Library references for "ServletContext@16785362[app:webapp1 module:webapp1.war path:/coagov spec-version:2.5]", defined in weblogic.xml [Extension-Name: jsf, Specification-Version: 2, exact-match: false] Seems to indicate that the weblogic.xml file you are embedding, has a <library-ref> element pointing to a JSF 2.0 shared-library deployed on WLS -- and that shared-library is not available.
So you fixed it by doing this:
Deployment -> Edit WAR deployment profile -> WEB-INF/LIB -> Contributors : checked jsf2.0, jstl1.2, jstl1.2tagsAnd thus, you have JSF 2.0 packaged in the WEB-INF/lib.
Can you check that it is actually included in the WEB-INF/lib directory of your WAR file? Perhaps it's not being included for some reason.
Have you also tried deploying the WLS jsf-2.0.war shared-library to the server you are deploying the web app to?
-steve-