JSF, tiles, xml and xsl

Good days people, I am employed at an app that wants to integrate JSF, tiles, xml and xsl.
Basically the app receives information of the user's interfaz, builds an url with the above mentioned information and invokes to a service web that a xml returns with the information. The idea is to generate the exit in format html or wml with an insole(staff) xsl and to send the result in this format to every jsp that is going to form a part of the page that it will generate tiles. at first I understand that it is feasible, i�d like to know if someone already has done it and since it has done it.
Just now what I have is a managed bean that receives the parameters of the altar frontal and invokes a method of a service, like this:
public String encuentra(){
//deja los atributos privados rellenos.
String mensaje ;
crearYRellenarBusquedaVO();
try {
setResultado(this.getServicio().obtenerResultadosWML(this.getBusquedaVO()));
mensaje="succesNoJS";
}catch(java.lang.IllegalArgumentException e){
mensaje="error";
}catch(es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException e1){
mensaje="error";
}catch(Exception e2){
mensaje="error";
return mensaje;
public String obtenerResultadosWML(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO){
if (busquedaVO == null){
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"obtenerResultadosJSdesactivado(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO) - 'busquedaVO' no puede ser nulo.");
try{
return this.manejarObtenerResultadosWML(busquedaVO);
}catch(es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException e1){
throw new es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException(
"Error ejecutando el servicio String obtenerResultadosJSdesactivado(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO). " + e1.getCause(),e1);
}catch(Exception e){
throw new es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException(
"Error ejecutando el servicio String obtenerResultadosJSdesactivado(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO). " + e.getCause(),e);
//it returns html code!
protected String manejarObtenerResultadosWML(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO)
throws java.lang.Exception{
try{
// xmlOrigen has full xml response from server
String xmlOrigen = manejarObtenerResultadosJSActivado(busquedaVO);
Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(new StringBufferInputStream(xmlOrigen));
Source xsltSource = new StreamSource(SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceImpl.class.getResourceAsStream(Constantes.XSL_FILE));
StringWriter cadenaSalida = new StringWriter();
Result bufferResultado = new StreamResult(cadenaSalida);
TransformerFactory factoriaTrans = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformador = factoriaTrans.newTransformer(xsltSource);
transformador.transform(xmlSource, bufferResultado);
System.out.println(cadenaSalida.toString());
return cadenaSalida.toString();
}catch(Exception e2){
throw new es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException (e2.getMessage());
With this exit in html, since(as,like) how could i forward it towards a jsp especially?
faces-config.xml
<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/index.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>succesNoJS</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/jsDesactivado.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>error</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/error.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
index.jsp
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<f:view>
<f:loadBundle basename="MessageResources" var="msg"/>
<head>
<title>
${msg.titulo}
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h:form id="formulario">
Que:
<h:inputText id="campoQue" value="#{yellProxy.campoQue}" />
Donde
<h:inputText id="campoDonde" value="#{ yellProxy.campoDonde}" />
<h:commandButton id="boton" value="Encuentra" action="#{yellProxy.encuentra}"/>
</h:form>
</f:view>
</body>
</html>
jsDesactivado.jsp
<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%--
The taglib directive below imports the JSTL library. If you uncomment it,
you must also add the JSTL library to the project. The Add Library... action
on Libraries node in Projects view can be used to add the JSTL 1.1 library.
--%>
<%--
<%@taglib uri=" http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
--%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
" http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JSP Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>JSP Page</h1>
jsDesactivado!!
<%--
This example uses JSTL, uncomment the taglib directive above.
To test, display the page like this: index.jsp?sayHello=true&name=Murphy
--%>
<%--
<c:if test="${param.sayHello}">

Hello ${param.name}!
</c:if>
--%>
<jsp:getProperty name="yellProxy" property="resultado"/>
</body>
</html>
If you could pass me a simple example of use of an app that uses JSF, tiles, xml and xsl, i�be grateful
regards a lot!

We too (at Viking Freight) would also be very interested to see if anybody
has produced such a useful series of classes...
Frank Lees, Developer
-----Original Message-----
From: Amin, Kamran [mailto:kamran.aminframeworkinc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 12:11 PM
To: 'Forte User'
Subject: (forte-users) XML and XSL in Forte
Has anybody integrated an XSL parser with Forte. I know Forte provides us
with an XML parser but that does not help with parsing XSL. There a lot of
parsers written in JAVA but that will not integrate well with Forte. We
need something that will be easy to integrate with Forte. This parser will
take our XML and XSL to give us a result set. If anybody can comment on the
subject or share some information I would appreciate it.
thanks in advance.
ka
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if(firstPersonNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){
Element firstPersonElement = (Element)firstPersonNode;
NodeList firstNameList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("first");
Element firstNameElement = (Element)firstNameList.item(0);
NodeList textFNList = firstNameElement.getChildNodes();
System.out.println("First Name : " + ((Node)textFNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim());
NodeList lastNameList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("last");
Element lastNameElement = (Element)lastNameList.item(0);
NodeList textLNList = lastNameElement.getChildNodes();
System.out.println("Last Name : " + ((Node)textLNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim());
NodeList ageList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("age");
Element ageElement = (Element)ageList.item(0);
NodeList textAgeList = ageElement.getChildNodes();
System.out.println("Age : " + ((Node)textAgeList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim());
}//end of if clause
}//end of for loop with s var
}catch (SAXParseException err) {
System.out.println ("** Parsing error" + ", line " + err.getLineNumber () + ", uri " + err.getSystemId ());
System.out.println(" " + err.getMessage ());
}catch (SAXException e) {
Exception x = e.getException ();
((x == null) ? e : x).printStackTrace ();
}catch (Throwable t) {
t.printStackTrace ();
//System.exit (0);
}//end of main
}Im trying to develop this code to work with podcast xml files..Im having a few issuses with this program.. Is there anyone out there that has created a program like this that works with podcast xml files??
Anyone got any suggestions.Please.

XML and XSL transformations can be done using most languages and in Java there is strong support for these techniques.
It worries me a little bit that you ask this question though. XML and XSL are no more than a tool to solve SOME problems, but I get the idea that you want to put them on your resume as if they are your main talent. The tool set of the developer is much broader than just some techniques to format and transform data, you need to be able to solve problems in the most efficient way possible, not limiting yourself to only a handful of techniques that you just happen to know a lot about.
What I am trying to say is: it is always good to have knowledge of these techniques, but don't go thinking it is going to guarantee you a job.

Convert xsl and xsl to pdf

Hi,
In our project, we generate reports using xalan parser in PDF and HTML formats. Now, my client wants them to be generated in RTF (Ms Word) format as well. As this is not possible using xalan, I tried to find out other parsers. I found one JFOR which generates RTFdocs from XSLFO. What I have is only XML and XSL documents. How can I get XSLFO document using these two? Is there any parser which generates XSLFO docs using XML and XSL? Or is there any parser which generates RTF docs directly from XML and XSL?
Thanks
Jagadeesh

As this is not possible using xalanWhy is it not possible? RTF is a text format as far as I know, and you can output text from XSLT.

Help-XML report which uses XSL-FO and XSL-FO contains OAF VO

Hello All,
I want to know functionality of one XML report developed by Oracle.
From one oracle form after clicking one button, it is populating PDF file output of report to open.
Here is what Oracle has done to achieve this:
On the click of button on oracle form, it is calling one OAF form. (fnd_function.execute(function_name=> 'ONT_PRINT').
This OAF form contains nothing on its layout. One CO (File is attached) and AM is attached to this OAF page.
In CO, may be it is somehow it is calling RTF file.
I got the RTF file from XML publisher, RTF imports one XSL-FO (ONTBSAEXSL is a Template of XSL-FO type in Oracle apps in XMP Publisher administrator responsibility) file using <?import:xdo://ONT.ONTBSAEXSL.en.00/?>
In the XSL file, OAF View Objects has been used like,
<xsl:variable name="LinesVO" select="/*/HeaderVO/HeaderVORow/LinesVO/LinesVORow"/>
What is the meaning of " /*/HeaderVO/HeaderVORow/LinesVO "? Does it mean LinesVO is getting called by HeadersVO. But in OAF this never happens.
I want to add some columns in the RTF from LinesVO. But "Unit price" is not available in LinesVO.
Do I need to extend this VO in JDeveloper and upload the .JPX and extended VO files?
I have done extending the VO, but no use..
So,
In short my question is,
If I extend the VO LinesVO by XXLinesVO, then will this <xsl:variable name="LinesVO" select="/*/HeaderVO/HeaderVORow/LinesVO/LinesVORow"/>
statement in XSL-FO use my XXLinesVO or LinesVO?
Regards,
Parag

I want to customize one RTF template by adding some columns. This RTF imports one XSL-FO stylesheet.
RTF has tags like <?for-each:/*/HeaderVO/HeaderVORow/LinesVO/LinesVORow?>
and XSL file has tags like <xsl:variable name="InternalOrgName" select="/*/HeaderVO/HeaderVORow/InternalOrgVO/InternalOrgVORow/Name"/>
If I want to add one colun in LinesVO, what are all things I need to do?
I customized it by adding the new columns through JDeveloper and extending the VO's and substituting them, importing JPX and bounced apache.
But the XSL-FO file is very strange (attached herewith). Those changes are not reflecting in report even after extension.

JSF 1.2 and Tiles integration

I have a web application using JSF 1.1 and Tiles that I am trying to upgrade to run using JSF 1.2.
It is working as far as working out that it should use the tile, but then it all seems to fall over when trying to render.
Does anyone know if it is possible to use Tiles with JSF 1.2?
Steven

Hi,
I took the Shales TileViewHandler and replaced the renderView method with the one below. This is a copy of the method from the Sun RI except that it passes the tile (ComponentDefinition) along to the subsequent methods.
Then when it gets down to executePageToBuildView the requestURI is obtained from the tile (tile.getPath()) rather than from the UIViewRoot (viewToExecute.getViewId()).
   public void renderView(FacesContext facesContext, UIViewRoot viewToRender)
                                        throws IOException, FacesException {
      String viewId = viewToRender.getViewId();
      String tileName = getTileName(viewId);
      ComponentDefinition tile = getTile(tileName);
      if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
         String message = null;
         try {
             message = bundle.getString("tiles.renderingView");
         } catch (MissingResourceException e) {
             message = "Rendering view {0}, looking for tile {1}";
         synchronized(format) {
            format.applyPattern(message);
            message = format.format(new Object[] { viewId, tileName });
         log.debug(message);
      if (tile != null) {
         if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            String message = null;
            try {
                message = bundle.getString("tiles.dispatchingToTile");
            } catch (MissingResourceException e) {
                message = "Dispatching to tile {0}";
            synchronized(format) {
               format.applyPattern(message);
               message = format.format(new Object[] { tileName });
            log.debug(message);
         dispatchToTile(facesContext, viewToRender, tile);
      else {
         if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            String message = null;
            try {
                message = bundle.getString("tiles.dispatchingToViewHandler");
            } catch (MissingResourceException e) {
                message = "Dispatching {0} to the default view handler";
            synchronized(format) {
               format.applyPattern(message);
               message = format.format(new Object[] { viewId });
            log.debug(message);
         defaultViewHandler.renderView(facesContext, viewToRender);
   private void dispatchToTile(FacesContext facesContext, UIViewRoot viewToRender, ComponentDefinition tile) throws java.io.IOException
       ExternalContext externalContext = facesContext.getExternalContext();
       Object request = externalContext.getRequest();
      Object context = externalContext.getContext();
      TilesContext tilesContext = TilesContextFactory.getInstance(context, request);
      ComponentContext tileContext = ComponentContext.getContext(tilesContext);
      if (tileContext == null) {
         tileContext = new ComponentContext(tile.getAttributes());
         ComponentContext.setContext(tileContext, tilesContext);
      else
         tileContext.addMissing(tile.getAttributes());
      renderTile(facesContext, viewToRender, tile);
      // dispatch to the tile's layout
      //externalContext.dispatch(tile.getPath());
   private void renderTile(FacesContext context, UIViewRoot viewToRender, ComponentDefinition tile) throws IOException, FacesException
       // suppress rendering if "rendered" property on the component is
       // false
       if (!viewToRender.isRendered()) {
           return;
       ExternalContext extContext = context.getExternalContext();
       ServletRequest request = (ServletRequest) extContext.getRequest();
       ServletResponse response = (ServletResponse) extContext.getResponse();
       try {
           if (executePageToBuildView(context, viewToRender, tile)) {
               response.flushBuffer();
               //ApplicationAssociate.getInstance(extContext).responseRendered();
               return;
       } catch (IOException e) {
           throw new FacesException(e);
       // set up the ResponseWriter
       RenderKitFactory renderFactory = (RenderKitFactory)
       FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.RENDER_KIT_FACTORY);
       RenderKit renderKit =
               renderFactory.getRenderKit(context, viewToRender.getRenderKitId());
       ResponseWriter oldWriter = context.getResponseWriter();
       initBuffSize(context);
       WriteBehindStringWriter strWriter =
             new WriteBehindStringWriter(context, bufSize);
       ResponseWriter newWriter;
       if (null != oldWriter) {
           newWriter = oldWriter.cloneWithWriter(strWriter);
       } else {
           newWriter = renderKit.createResponseWriter(strWriter, null,
                   request.getCharacterEncoding());
       context.setResponseWriter(newWriter);
       newWriter.startDocument();
       doRenderView(context, viewToRender);
       newWriter.endDocument();
       // replace markers in the body content and write it to response.
       ResponseWriter responseWriter;
       if (null != oldWriter) {
           responseWriter = oldWriter.cloneWithWriter(response.getWriter());
       } else {
           responseWriter = newWriter.cloneWithWriter(response.getWriter());
       context.setResponseWriter(responseWriter);
       strWriter.flushToWriter(responseWriter);
       if (null != oldWriter) {
           context.setResponseWriter(oldWriter);
       // write any AFTER_VIEW_CONTENT to the response
       writeAfterViewContent(extContext, response);
   private boolean executePageToBuildView(FacesContext context, UIViewRoot viewToExecute, ComponentDefinition tile)
   throws IOException {
       if (null == context) {
           String message = MessageUtils.getExceptionMessageString
                   (MessageUtils.NULL_PARAMETERS_ERROR_MESSAGE_ID, "context");
           throw new NullPointerException(message);
       if (null == viewToExecute) {
           String message = MessageUtils.getExceptionMessageString
                   (MessageUtils.NULL_PARAMETERS_ERROR_MESSAGE_ID, "viewToExecute");
           throw new NullPointerException(message);
       String mapping = Util.getFacesMapping(context);
       String requestURI =
             updateRequestURI(viewToExecute.getViewId(), mapping);
       String requestURI =
           updateRequestURI(tile.getPath(), mapping);
       if (mapping.equals(requestURI)) {
           // The request was to the FacesServlet only - no path info
           // on some containers this causes a recursion in the
           // RequestDispatcher and the request appears to hang.
           // If this is detected, return status 404
           HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)
                 context.getExternalContext().getResponse();
           response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
           return true;
       ExternalContext extContext = context.getExternalContext();
       // update the JSTL locale attribute in request scope so that JSTL
       // picks up the locale from viewRoot. This attribute must be updated
       // before the JSTL setBundle tag is called because that is when the
       // new LocalizationContext object is created based on the locale.
       // PENDING: this only works for servlet based requests
       if (extContext.getRequest()
       instanceof ServletRequest) {
           Config.set((ServletRequest)
           extContext.getRequest(),
                      Config.FMT_LOCALE, context.getViewRoot().getLocale());
       // save the original response
       Object originalResponse = extContext.getResponse();
       // replace the response with our wrapper
       ViewHandlerResponseWrapper wrapped =
             new ViewHandlerResponseWrapper(
                   (HttpServletResponse)extContext.getResponse());
       extContext.setResponse(wrapped);
       // build the view by executing the page
       extContext.dispatch(requestURI);
       // replace the original response
       extContext.setResponse(originalResponse);
       // Follow the JSTL 1.2 spec, section 7.4,
       // on handling status codes on a forward
       if (wrapped.getStatus() < 200 || wrapped.getStatus() > 299) {
           // flush the contents of the wrapper to the response
           // this is necessary as the user may be using a custom
           // error page - this content should be propagated
           wrapped.flushContentToWrappedResponse();
           return true;
       // Put the AFTER_VIEW_CONTENT into request scope
       // temporarily
       if (wrapped.isBytes()) {
           extContext.getRequestMap().put(AFTER_VIEW_CONTENT,
                                          wrapped.getBytes());
       } else if (wrapped.isChars()) {
           extContext.getRequestMap().put(AFTER_VIEW_CONTENT,
                                          wrapped.getChars());
       return false;
   }You will also find you need to copy a few other methods from the Sun RI.
There were a couple of calls to ApplicationAssociate.responseRendered() which I just commented out as well (because they are not visible). They stop people changing the StateManager or ViewHandler after responses have been rendered. Probably not a problem since I will have replaced the ViewHandler anyway.
Steven

JSF 1.2 and Tomcat 6.0.16, error parsing 'jsf-ri-runtime.xml'

I am working on an application that used jsf 1.1 but would like to move to jsf 1.2. I've added the 1.2 jars (jsf-api.jar and jsf-impl.jar) and jstl-1.2.jar to the app. When I deploy to tomcat 6, i get the following error:
15-Feb-2008 11:30:36 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
com.sun.faces.config.ConfigurationException: CONFIGURATION FAILED! Unable to parse document 'jar:file:/C:/servers/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/myWebApp/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-impl-1.2.jar!/com/sun/faces/jsf-ri-runtime.xml': This parser does not support specification "null" version "null"
at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigManager.initialize(ConfigManager.java:212)
at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4350)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:829)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:718)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1147)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: com.sun.faces.config.ConfigurationException: Unable to parse document 'jar:file:/C:/servers/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/myWebApp/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-impl-1.2.jar!/com/sun/faces/jsf-ri-runtime.xml': This parser does not support specification "null" version "null"
at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigManager$ParseTask.call(ConfigManager.java:409)
at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigManager$ParseTask.call(ConfigManager.java:353)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
I thought this would have something to do with the xml parser so i added jaxb and jaxp to the application but I still get the same error. Can anyone help? Is there a possibility that a library in the app is overriding jaxb/jaxp?

I had a similar problem on OC4J. For some crazy reason, Oracle still bundles their own XML parser (I say still. It's OC4J 10.1.3 we have in production, so we're just a wee bit behind the curve). At any rate, I had to tell OC4j not to use Oracle's XML parser and just the one bundle with the JRE (1.5). IIRC (and I should know this since I work on Mojarra :), that's caused by an older version of JAXB, so I think you're on the right track. You might check to see if Tomcat 6 bundles JAXB. If it does, you'll need to remove it or update it. If you're on 1.5 or greater, I don't think you need to have that in the app server lib anyway, as the JDK/JRE bundles it.
Hope that helps. :)

Navigation issue using jsf, tiles, tomahawk :loosing faces context

Hi all,
I enhanced my webapp using tomahawks jscookmenu.
Triggering 1 menuItem the wanted pages displays correctly but the next click anywhere in the application shows this error:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.faces.FacesException: Faces context not found. getResponseWriter will fail. Check if the FacesServlet has been initialized at all in your web.xml configuration fileand if you are accessing your jsf-pages through the correct mapping. E.g.: if your FacesServlet is mapped to *.jsf (with the <servlet-mapping>-element), you need to access your pages as 'sample.jsf'. If you tried to access 'sample.jsp', you'd get this error-message.The web config is like that:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
     version="2.4">
     <context-param>
          <description>Tiles MyFaces Config</description>
          <param-name>tiles-definitions</param-name>
          <param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
          <param-value>.jsp</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
          <param-value>server</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>javax.faces.PARTIAL_STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
          <param-value>off</param-value>
     </context-param>
     
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.READONLY_AS_DISABLED_FOR_SELECTS</param-name>
          <param-value>true</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.RENDER_VIEWSTATE_ID</param-name>
          <param-value>true</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.STRICT_XHTML_LINKS</param-name>
          <param-value>true</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.CONFIG_REFRESH_PERIOD</param-name>
          <param-value>this is a bug in myfaces</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.ADD_RESOURCE_CLASS</param-name>
          <param-value>org.apache.myfaces.renderkit.html.util.DefaultAddResource</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.RESOURCE_VIRTUAL_PATH</param-name>
          <param-value>/faces/myFacesExtensionResource</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.CHECK_EXTENSIONS_FILTER</param-name>
          <param-value>true</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.ALLOW_JAVASCRIPT</param-name>
          <param-value>true</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.PRETTY_HTML</param-name>
          <param-value>true</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.AUTO_SCROLL</param-name>
          <param-value>true</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
          <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.DETECT_JAVASCRIPT</param-name>
          <param-value>false</param-value>
     </context-param>
     
     <listener>
          <listener-class>
               org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener
          </listener-class>
     </listener>
     
     <filter>
          <filter-name>MyFacesExtensionsFilter</filter-name>
          <filter-class>
               org.apache.myfaces.webapp.filter.ExtensionsFilter
          </filter-class>
          <init-param>
               <param-name>uploadMaxFileSize</param-name>
               <param-value>1m</param-value>
          </init-param>
     </filter>
     <filter-mapping>
          <filter-name>MyFacesExtensionsFilter</filter-name>
          <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
     </filter-mapping>
     <filter-mapping>
          <filter-name>MyFacesExtensionsFilter</filter-name>
          <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
     </filter-mapping>
     
     <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>*.jsf</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>
     <welcome-file-list>
          <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list>
     <servlet>
          <servlet-name>imageServlet</servlet-name>
          <servlet-class>my.com.xplorer.gui.v.ImageServlet</servlet-class>
     </servlet>
     <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>imageServlet</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>/image/*</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>So I lost the faces context using the jscookmenu, I believe.
My webapp uses tiles, and there is 2 navigation possibilities: tomahawaks jscookmenu and tomahawaks commandNavigation.
Latter one runs ok, I do use
<t:panelNavigation id="nav" styleClass="navigation"
     itemClass="navitem" separatorClass="navseparator"
     activeItemClass="navitem_active" openItemClass="navitem_open">
     <t:commandNavigation action="#{newsHandler.userRequest}" value="#{newsHandler.rss_source_name[0]}">
          <f:param name="navigator" value="/jsf/news.jsp" />
     </t:commandNavigation>
</t:panelNavigation>for this kind of navigation I do not use any navigation rules in faces config. To dynamically include the desired faces page I do that:
<%
     String s = (String)request.getParameter("navigator");
     if (s == null || s.length() == 0 ) {
          s = "/jsf/explorer.jsp";
%>
<jsp:include page="<%=s %>" />That does work.
Now like I said I did enhance the app by adding tomahawks jscookmenu.
Therefore I use the following in another tile:
<t:jscookMenu layout="hbr" theme="ThemeOffice" styleLocation="resources/css">
          <%/* Availaible jscookMenu themes: ThemeIE, ThemeMiniBlack, ThemeOffice, ThemePanel
             Availaible jscookMenu layout: hbr, hbl, hur, hul, vbr, vbl, vur, vul
             respect to Heng Yuan http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~heng/JSCookMenu
        */%>
<t:navigationMenuItem id="nav_0" itemLabel="#{localz.Xplorer}" action="Xplorer" />
</t:jscookMenu>For this kind of navigation I tried to use navigation rules and the following show the config:
     <navigation-rule>
       <from-view-id>/jsf/*</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>Xplorer</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/jsf/tileMain.jsp?navigator=/jsf/explorer.jsp</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>Tabs</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/jsf/tileMain.jsp?navigator=/jsf/tab.jsp</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
     </navigation-rule>That works for the first click. The desired page is shown. The nect click anywhere in the app then show the mentioned error.
Using tiles I use this view-handler
<view-handler>org.apache.myfaces.tomahawk.application.jsp.JspTilesViewHandlerImpl</view-handler>One question is: can I use another view-handler on top of the above one? So I could extend com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler and try my luck with this? Or is the solution pointed out just a millisecond from being ok, I just don�t see it?
Maybe you need to know a bit more on how I use tiles:
That is the page I start with. It inserts the tile shown underneath.
<f:view locale="#{userLocale}">
     <f:loadBundle var="localz" basename="my.com.xplorer.gui.v.Lokalization" />
     <f:loadBundle var="bundle" basename="my.com.xplorer.gui.v.messages" />
     <f:subview id="tileMain">
          <h:form id="myJsfForm" styleClass="standard">
                    <tiles:insert definition="template" flush="false" />
          </h:form>
     </f:subview>
     <h:messages />
</f:view>
</html>The foolowing is the tile structure.
The bodi tile is the dynamic part. Above you see that I dynamically load the pages into it.
<t:htmlTag value="div" styleClass="pageLayout">
     <h:panelGrid columns="2" align="center" styleClass="pageContent">
          <f:facet name="header">
               <f:subview id="header">
                    <tiles:insert attribute="header" flush="false" />
               </f:subview>
          </f:facet>
          <t:htmlTag value="div" styleClass="pageMenu">
               <f:subview id="menu">
                    <tiles:insert attribute="menu" flush="false" />
               </f:subview>
          </t:htmlTag>
          <t:htmlTag value="div" styleClass="pageContentWoMenu">
               <f:subview id="bodi">
                    <tiles:insert attribute="bodi" flush="false" />
               </f:subview>
          </t:htmlTag>
          <f:facet name="footer">
               <f:subview id="footer">
                    <tiles:insert attribute="footer" flush="false" />
               </f:subview>
          </f:facet>
     </h:panelGrid>
</t:htmlTag>Maybe you also need to know the tiles config?
<tiles-definitions>
   <definition name="template" path="/jsf/tileTemplate.jsp">
          <put name="header" value="/jsf/header.jsp"/>
      <put name="menu"    value="/jsf/menu.jsp"/>
      <put name="bodi"    value="/jsf/bodi.jsp"/>
      <put name="footer"    value="/jsf/footer.jsp"/>
   </definition>
   <definition name="/jsf/news.tiles" extends="template">
          <put name="bodi" value="/jsf/news.jsp"/>
   </definition>
   <definition name="/jsf/explorer.tiles" extends="template">
          <put name="bodi" value="/jsf/explorer.jsp"/>
   </definition>
   <definition name="/jsf/tab.tiles" extends="template">
          <put name="bodi" value="/jsf/tab.jsp"/>
   </definition>If you have read until here: thanks very much.
There seems to be a sort of gap regarding jsf navigation documentation.
I mean the ordinary way is covered everywhere (the book I have covers that too), but jscookmenu seems not to fit in too good. I also tried it with an actionslistener in the jscookmenu but that failed, too. So a link to documents telling the truth on jsf navigation I would appreciate very much.
Kind regards
Belle Ile En Mer

This is the error i am getting into now..
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /welcomeJSF.jsp at line 19
16: This file is an entry point for JavaServer Faces application.
17: --%>
18: <body>
19: <f:view>
20: <h3><h:outputText value="CHOULTRY'S IN BANGALORE" /></h3>
21: <h:form>
22: <table border="0">
Stacktrace:
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:505)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:416)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
root cause
java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find FacesContext
     javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.getFacesContext(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:1811)
     javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.setJspId(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:1628)
     org.apache.jsp.welcomeJSF_jsp._jspx_meth_f_005fview_005f0(welcomeJSF_jsp.java:112)
     org.apache.jsp.welcomeJSF_jsp._jspService(welcomeJSF_jsp.java:86)
     org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

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