JSF 1.2 tag handler classes in JSF 1.1 environment

Question

Hi,
I’m developing a JSF 1.2 application with RSA 7.5.1. When I run it in the WAS 6.1 I get the following exception:
javax.servlet.ServletException:
Unable to convert string '#{onebean.onestring}' to class
javax.el.ValueExpression for attribute title:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
Property Editor not registered with the PropertyEditorManager
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException
(PageContextImpl.java:660)etc...
I think my WAS 6.1 running environment doesn’t admit Tag Handler classes in JSF 1.2 style (you know: Extending UIComponentELTag, with all attributes in the tag class of type valueExpression along with setter methods...).
In case this suspect is true, is there any tricky way to run this JSF 1.2 components in a JSF 1.1 environment?
Do you have any ideas to solve this problem without downgrading my JSF tag handler classes from 1.2 to 1.1?
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Hi BalusC,
This is the full history:
I started coding the tag handler classes of my JSF components in the JSF 1.2 way.
But know, I’am being forced to run the web app that uses those JSF 1.2 components in a WAS 6.1 (servlet 2.4 & jsp 2.0, I suppose).
Not very elegant solution, I put a ‘servlet2.5-jsp2.1-api.jar’ file in my ‘WebContent\WEB-INF\lib’ directory, and configured a ‘PARENT-LAST’ class loader policy in the server configuration.
This is my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
     version="2.5">
   <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>
     <welcome-file-list>
          <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
          <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
          <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
          <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
          <welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
          <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>When I launch the JSF example page, I get no logs, no messages, ONLY a blank page (¿?)
Thank you very much for your skilled help!