Using Sun JSF in JBoss-4.0.5GA

Question

Using Sun JSF
1. In $JBOSS_HME/server/server-name/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/conf/web.xml, comment out the following lines (line 243 - 247)
<init-param>
  <description>MyFaces tlds</description>
  <param-name>tagLibJar0</param-name>
  <param-value>jsf-libs/myfaces-impl.jar</param-value>
</init-param>2. Delete all the files under $JBOSS_HME/server/server-name/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs and remove jsf-libs subdirectory.
3. Copy the jstl.jar and standard.jar files from the $CREATOR_INSTLL_DIR/enterprise1/config/TagLibraries/JSTL11 directory to $JBOSS_HME/server/server-name/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/.
Since the above steps removed MyFace completely, you should not add
<listener>
  <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>in your web.xml any more.
Calling EJBs from Web modules
1. Wrap all the JAR and WAR files in an EAR file.
2. Do not put any utility JAR file except JDBC Drivers under $JBOSS_HME/server/server-name/lib/; otherwise, you could see �classloader violation�.
3. To share the utility JAR between the EJBs and the Web modules, put it in the EAR file and declare the utility JAR in META-INF/application.xml as follows,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application version="1.4" 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/application_1_4.xsd">
  <description>Application description</description>
  <display-name>whatever</display-name>
  <module>
    <java>webUtils.jar</java>
  </module> 
  <module>
    <web>
      <web-uri>your.war</web-uri>
      <context-root>/yourURL</context-root>
    </web>
  </module>
  <module>
    <ejb>ejb1.jar</ejb>
  </module>
  <module>
    <ejb>ejb2.jar</ejb>
  </module>
</application>4. Modify $JBOSS_HME/server/server-name/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/META-INF/jboss-service.xml. Change <attribute name="Java2ClassLoadingCompliance">false</attribute> to true and <attribute name="UseJBossWebLoader">false</attribute> to true. The default configuration uses different classloaders to load EJB files and WAR file, thus does not allow the Web module to call any EJB.
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xyli33
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xyli33

Answer 1

I got it working, thanks a lot to you guys.
yes, the problem was because of the myfaces jars in the JBoss. dj had pointed this in his reply earlier but i couldnt not get it working at that time (not sure why). so after i got prasanths reply this is what i did:
1) re-installed a clean copy of JBoss 4.0.4RC1 using the jar installer
(Note: if you just use the unzip and copy method, the ejb 3 won't work by default)
2) deleted the <jboss_home>/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/jsf-libs folder.
3) comment out this portion in <jboss_home>/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/cong/web.xml
<init-param>
<description>MyFaces tlds</description>
<param-name>tagLibJar0</param-name>
<param-value>jsf-libs/myfaces-impl.jar</param-value>
</init-param>
4) deleted the tmp, log and data folders under <jboss_home>/server/default
directory (these were there, because i did a test start and stop)
5) Started JBoss
6) Deployed JSF application from JDeveloper.
and it worked fine.
==>For newbie's --> watch out the the url pattern in the web.xml file created by JDeveloper if you get error : FacesContext not Found
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Now, I want to get my EJB 3.0 working in JBoss which I created in JDeveloper and is working fine in OC4J but when i deploy to JBoss, it won't work. I will post a new thread for that in detail.
thanks once again