Deploying JSF - ADF Faces (EA14) application to OAS 10.1.2

Question

JSF 1.1.01 problem
I have an ADF Faces application that I have been working on in JDeveloper 10.1.3.0.2.223 and I thought that it was time to deploy it to an Oracle 10g AS (10.1.2) (WindowsXP SP2). A long time ago I did a test deploy of a sample program jsflogin and that works fine (although I now realize that this was a JSF 1.0 application) and my ADF application is, of course, JSF 1.1.
As I've already said, my JSF 1.1 / ADF application works perfectly in JDeveloper. The problem is that the first time the OAS 10.1.2 deployed instance of my application hits a <f:tag> it fails. When the first <f:tag> was <f:loadBundle> the error looked like this:
500 Internal Server Error
java.lang.NullPointerException     at com.sun.faces.taglib.jsf_core.LoadBundleTag.doStartTag(LoadBundleTag.java:96)     
at LoginPage.jspService(_LoginPage.java:72)
[SRC:/LoginPage.jsp:12]     
at com.orionserver[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.0)].http.OrionHttpJspPage.service(OrionHttpJspPage.java:56)     
at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspPageTable.compileAndServe(JspPageTable.java:567)     
at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspPageTable.service(JspPageTable.java:302)     
at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspServlet.internalService(JspServlet.java:509)     
at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:413)     
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)     
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.0)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:810)     
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.0)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:322)     
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.0)].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:790)     
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.0)].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJPRequestHandler.java:208)     
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.0)].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJPRequestHandler.java:125)     
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.0)].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:192)     
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
When I got rid of the resource file it then failed on the <f:view> tag as follows:
500 Internal Server Error
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find FacesContex     
at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.doStartTag(UIComponentTag.java:405)     
at com.sun.faces.taglib.jsf_core.ViewTag.doStartTag(ViewTag.java:105)     
at LoginPage.jspService(_LoginPage.java:70)
[SRC:/LoginPage.jsp:12]     
The rest is the same as above.
I've got all the jsf, jstl, standard, and other jars in my WEB-INF/lib folder and there are no other jsf or jstl jars in the OAS home so I can't be connecting to the "wrong" library.
Any hints? Has someone else out there successfully deployed to 10.1.2?
Thanks in advance, Mark

Answer 1

Okay, so my problem was that the URL I was using was the OC4J launch url (http://host/applicationname and my welcome-file-list was
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>LoginPage.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
I tried these two variations
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>LoginPage.faces</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>faces/LoginPage.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
and neither of these worked either. (I did restart the OC4J node between each attempt.)
I finally created an index.html file for the application with an automatic refresh content="0;URL=faces/LoginPage.jsp" and this is working.
Should the welcome-file-list have worked? Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks for the help. Mark