JSF and weblogic 8.1 sp2?? Please help!

Question

Hello All -
We are part of a small team here in SF at a biotech company... they have given us the green light to use JSF on a small project.
Only problem is that we must deploy to Weblogic 8.1 SP2 & I can't get JSF to work on Weblogic 8.1 SP2.
I get strange errors -- an inability to control navigation. The simple "hello world" app that comes with the Manning book "Javaserver faces in Action" does not work on WL 8.1 SP2. It does however work on Tomcat.
I have even written a hack servlet that starts the listener manually that is needed for JSF to work. (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=499690&start=15&tstart=30)
Any ideas on this? We are getting desperate with a deadline looming Thursday. Want to make this work & not have to go back to Struts.
One blog I saw said that what is needed is a Weblogic patch. Anyone know anything about this? (http://jroller.com/page/RickHigh/20040929)
Thank you-
Matt

Answer 1

I'm trying to get a JSF web app I have working on
tomcat ported to weblogic 8.1 sp2.
When I deploy the webapp I get the following
exception.
I get the same exception when I try to deploy the JSF
sample cardemo.war. (I've tried both JSF1.0 and JSF
1.1, both result in the same error).Hello Kieth,
Have you considered this content from the README:
* Some web containers (Notably BEA WebLogic Server) don't follow the
JSP 1.2 Spec rule of calling ServletContextListeners listeners defined
in tld files in the META-INF directory of a jar. Running a faces
webapp in such a container requires you to manually declare the
ServletContextListener. The listener-class you need to specify is
com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
Ed (EG Member)