JSF app on Tomcat 5.0.27

Question

Hi I'm reading (and I guess I'm not the only one here) the Core JSF Book, I've installed all the jar files needed in the app of the Chapter 1 to the .../common/lib folder, I have this errors when I try to access to the localhost:8080/login app
2004-07-28 16:09:13 StandardContext[login]Excepci?n enviando evento inicializado de contexto a instancia de escuchador de clase com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/faces/el/MethodBinding
     at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.initialized(ConfigureListener.java:1014)
     at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:146)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3827)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4343)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:277)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:832)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:687)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:432)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1068)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:327)
     at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.backgroundProcess(StandardHost.java:800)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1619)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1628)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1608)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2004-07-28 16:09:13 StandardContext[login]Excepci?n enviando evento de contexto destru?do a instancia de escuchador de clase com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/faces/el/MethodBinding
     at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.release(ConfigureListener.java:1250)
     at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextDestroyed(ConfigureListener.java:337)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:3868)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stop(StandardContext.java:4500)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4371)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:277)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:832)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:687)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:432)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1068)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:327)
     at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.backgroundProcess(StandardHost.java:800)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1619)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1628)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1608)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
I checked and re-checked the web and config-faces xml files, I even copy the login folder of the example book!
what should I do ? or what is else more to configure ?

Answer 1

hi there
Hmmmm. I think this issue is quite subtle:
my expanded \WEB-INF\lib shows:
commons-beanutils.jar
commons-collections.jar
commons-digester.jar
commons-discovery-0.2.jar
myapp-20050627.jar
jsf-api.jar
jsf-impl.jar
jstl.jar
log4j-1.3alpha-6.jar
spring.jar
standard.jar
( i have excluded commons-logging.jar as this caused errors when reading the existing log4j.properties file)
Once the build script is run and I copy my .war to ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps
I get the following shown in STDOUT although my does deploy
27-Jun-2005 13:22:04 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 3203 ms
27-Jun-2005 13:22:25 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWARs
WARNING: Exception while expanding web application archive myapp.war
27-Jun-2005 13:22:36 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Installing web application at context path /myapp from URL file:E:/Apache/
jakarta/Tomcat5.0/webapps/myapp
27-Jun-2005 13:22:39 org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader initWebApplic
.....My tomcat localhost log shows
2005-06-27 13:22:39 StandardContext[/myapp]Loading Spring root WebApplicationContext
2005-06-27 13:26:02 StandardContext[/myapp]Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext
2005-06-27 13:26:02 StandardContext[/myapp]Error configuring application listener of class com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
     at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1340)
     at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1189)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3775)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4343)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:277)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:832)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:625)I guess I need to turn on trace logging in Tomcat ( and make sure I redirect all statements to tomcat localhost .log) as I need to find which unchecked exception
causes the Tomcat autodeploy mechanism to stop working
Regards
Daniel