Error loading JSF page popup window - Cannot find FacesContext

Question

Hello,
I am trying to load a popup window from my Visual Web JSF page. The popup window itself will be a Visual Web JSF page also.
As an example, i have 2 buttons on my original page with jsp tags as follows::
<webuijsf:button binding="#{Page1.button1}" id="button1" onClick="window.showModelessDialog('./PopupPage.jsp'); return false;"
style="left: 19px; top: 16px; position: absolute" text="Button"/>
<webuijsf:button actionExpression="#{Page1.button2_action}" binding="#{Page1.button2}" id="button2"
onClick="window.showModelessDialog('./PopupPage.jsp');" style="position: absolute; left: 20px; top: 44px" text="Button"/>
When i click Button1, the popup window appears but will not load the page within the window. I get the following report in the server log:
StandardWrapperValve[jsp]: PWC1406: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find FacesContext
at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.getFacesContext(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:1811)
at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.setJspId(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:1628)
at org.apache.jsp.PopupPage_jsp._jspx_meth_f_view_0(PopupPage_jsp.java from :102)
at org.apache.jsp.PopupPage_jsp._jspService(PopupPage_jsp.java from :77)
ETC ETC
If i click Button2 (which does NOT return false in the onclick Script and thus submits the first page) the first attempt fails with the same error, but if i try a second time the popup window displays and loads the page correctly.
Any solutions would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me crazy :-s
Edited by: coxy69 on Jan 9, 2008 10:29 PM

Answer 1

Cannot find FacesContextThis generally indicates that you invoked a request which points to a JSP page which contains JSF tags, but that the request itself isn't passed through the FacesServlet. Make sure that the request URL is covered by the url-pattern setting of the FacesServlet in the web.xml.