JSF 1.2_06 failed hard where MyFaces 1.2.1 issued a warning  0 : 1 for My F

Using
JSF 1.2_06 RI
Facelets 1.1.14
richfaces-ui-3.1.2.SP1.jar
richfaces-impl-3.1.2.SP1.jar
richfaces-api-3.1.2.SP1.jar
Websphere 6.1.013 JDK 5 impl J2EE 1.4 spec
before you say that it's not jsf 1.2, it's RichFaces, i already verified this and no it's not richFaces that cause this
Error Rendering View[/quote/quote.xhtml]
                                 java.lang.NullPointerException
     at org.richfaces.renderkit.TabPanelRendererBase.encodeTabs(TabPanelRendererBase.java:327)
     at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.TabPanelRenderer.doEncodeBegin(TabPanelRenderer.java:227)
     at org.richfaces.renderkit.html.TabPanelRenderer.doEncodeBegin(TabPanelRenderer.java:180)
     at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.RendererBase.encodeBegin(RendererBase.java:101)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeBegin(UIComponentBase.java:801)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:934)
     at javax.faces.render.Renderer.encodeChildren(Renderer.java:148)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:825)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:936)
     at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:942)
     at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:592)
     at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108)
     at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:216)
     at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:110)
     at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:100)
     at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139)
     at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:266)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:989)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:930)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:145)
     at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:141)
     at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:281)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper.doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:190)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:130)
     at com.bipt.tiva.interceptor.SessionFilter.doFilter(SessionFilter.java:45)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper.doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:190)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:130)
     at org.springframework.webflow.executor.jsf.FlowSystemCleanupFilter.doFilterInternal(FlowSystemClea
nupFilter.java:40)
     at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:75)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper.doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:190)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:130)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain._doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:87)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:766)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:674)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:498)
     at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:464)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.CacheServletWrapper.handleRequest(CacheServletWrapper.java:90)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:744)
     at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:1455)
     at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:113)
     at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:4
54)
     at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewInformation(HttpInboundLink.java:3
83)
     at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpICLReadCallback.complete(HttpICLReadCallback.java:102)
     at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.
java:165)
     at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
     at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
     at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:136)
     at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:195)
     at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:743)
     at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:873)
     at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1469)
     When i Replaced it with MyFaces 1.2.1-snapshot
i got :
UIComponentBa W javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase getClientId WARNING: Component j_id72 just got an automatic id, because there was no id a
ssigned yet. If this component was created dynamically (i.e. not by a JSP tag) you should assign it an explicit static id or assign it the id you get from the createUniqueId from t
he current UIViewRoot component right after creation! Path to Component: {Component-Path : [Class: org.ajax4jsf.component.AjaxViewRoot,ViewId: /policy/customer/view.xhtml][Class: j
avax.faces.component.html.HtmlPanelGrid,Id: j_id25][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlOutputText,Id: j_id72]}While it sure might be my fault for not knowing the JSF 1.2 spec from A to Z it does not help when the Implementation craps out with an ambiguous exceptions.
MyFaces got my vote on this one...

I could be really mean right now in my answer.
I did not even have to post anything, i choose to use MyFaces 1.2.1 and scraped JSF 1.2_06 SUN RI out of my projects lib folder.
Sorry dude that's the reality, the exceptions the SUN RI threw does not help me in trying to work on real life applications.
You know i have read that Sun RI implementation is probably best out there since work began on the 1.2 spec way before Apache MyFaces started, hence potentially less buggy.
I picked up the latest code from SUN RI and encountered at least 3 exceptions that are very low level and hard to mitigate.
While without any JSF pages modifications i plugged in MyFaces 1.2.1-Snapshot and not a single NullPointerException or a failure.
I just want to reflect here on this situation because i have been always defending SUN and it's work against other packages
but my situation with upgrading from 1.1 to JSF 1.2 really puts a dent in my conviction
specially where UI is such a risky business for us developers in the Web industry.
this Forum probably is taking me longer then if i just logged the issue against RI.
But my point is that when such frameworks are being developed they should be tested against real large applications under many industry problems.
I am after getting this point across, because right now i don't care if you these exceptions are being fixed i dumped your packages anyway.
Now i know MyFaces have their own problems, but at this moment they are not my issues, my project works using their implementation and that's the story .

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