Deploying small JSF app to OC4J 10.13.10

Question

Hi all,
I'm having a small problem deploying my JSF application on oas 10.13.10. Deploying actually works fine but when I try to surf to my app it gives me a HTTP 500 - Internal server error.
When I check the logs in the entreprise manager I see the following error:
07/10/25 08:46:32.203 10.1.3.1.0 Started
07/10/25 08:46:32.296 localvalidation: Error preloading servlet
javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet 'Faces Servlet'. Servlet class javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet not found
in web-application localvalidation
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.servletClassNotFound(HttpApplication.java:4866)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.findServlet(HttpApplication.java:4832)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.findServlet(HttpApplication.java:4734)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.initPreloadServlets(HttpApplication.java:4922)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.initDynamic(HttpApplication.java:1134)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpApplication.<init>(HttpApplication.java:738)
at com.evermind.server.ApplicationStateRunning.getHttpApplication(ApplicationStateRunning.java:414)
at com.evermind.server.Application.getHttpApplication(Application.java:545)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite$HttpApplicationRunTimeReference.createHttpApplicationFromReference(HttpSite.java:1990)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite$HttpApplicationRunTimeReference.<init>(HttpSite.java:1909)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpSite.addHttpApplication(HttpSite.java:1606)
at oracle.oc4j.admin.internal.WebApplicationBinder.bindWebApp(WebApplicationBinder.java:238)
at oracle.oc4j.admin.internal.WebApplicationBinder.bindWebApp(WebApplicationBinder.java:99)
at oracle.oc4j.admin.internal.ApplicationDeployer.bindWebApp(ApplicationDeployer.java:547)
at oracle.oc4j.admin.internal.ApplicationDeployer.doDeploy(ApplicationDeployer.java:202)
at oracle.oc4j.admin.internal.DeployerBase.execute(DeployerBase.java:93)
at oracle.oc4j.admin.jmx.server.mbeans.deploy.OC4JDeployerRunnable.doRun(OC4JDeployerRunnable.java:52)
at oracle.oc4j.admin.jmx.server.mbeans.deploy.DeployerRunnable.run(DeployerRunnable.java:81)
at com.evermind.util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:303)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
my web.xml looks like this:
<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>
     <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>
     <session-config>
<session-timeout>35</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<mime-mapping>
<extension>html</extension>
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<mime-mapping>
<extension>txt</extension>
<mime-type>text/plain</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
     <welcome-file-list>
          <welcome-file>Index.html</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list>
     <error-page>
          <error-code>500</error-code>
          <location>/ErrorPage.jsp</location>
     </error-page>
The Index.html, which is the welcome page, I can see fine. That page redirects to a page called Validation.jsp (but i redirect to Validation.faces ofcourse) and then the error comes in. Could this have anything to do with my shared libraries? I added the jsf 1.2 libraries to the shared libraries and then I got a different error saying I still miss something else, a javax.faces.FacesFactory (don't know the exact name of the missing class).
Could someone please help me on this? I've been trying several stuff now for 3 days and haven't found any solutions on the net so far.
Thank You!

Answer 1

Hi Frank,
I don't use /faces/ I use the .faces extension but I don't think that it matters wich servlet mapping you use, does it?
About the jsf-impl.jar, as soon as I put any libraries in my .war file (in the WEB-INF/lib directory) my application won't even deploy .. I even tried freshly installing a newer version (10.1.3.3.0) oc4j j2ee containers and tried to deploy both with libraries and without them but still got the same errors.
Isn't there some guide to follow for deploying jsf applications to oc4j j2ee containers? One which describes all the steps? Or maybe some people here that have already deployed such an application (even if it's as small as hello world) could describe how they got it working step by step?
Thanks for your help!
Tom.