I get noting in the logs when I shift-reload the web page, even after restarting Tomcat. Interesting, in preparing this post I killed the logs and restarted Tomcat and I get a clean startup in catalina.err but in catalina.out I find this apparent startup problem:
... [Loaded javax.faces.event.PhaseListener from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-api.jar] [Loaded javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-api.jar] [Loaded javax.faces.convert.EnumConverter from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-api.jar] [Loaded javax.servlet.jsp.JspFactory from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/jsp-api.jar] [Loaded com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/el-ri.jar] [Loaded com.sun.el.ValueExpressionLiteral from file:/usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps/PaperTrade/WEB-INF/lib/el-ri.jar] Nov 12, 2006 9:53:40 PM com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener registerELResolverAndListenerWithJsp SEVERE: Error Instantiating ExpressionFactory java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.registerELResolverAndListenerWithJsp(ConfigureListener.java:1876) at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:565) at com.sun.faces.config.GlassFishConfigureListener.contextInitialized(GlassFishConfigureListener.java:46) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3669) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4104) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:788) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:677) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:473) ...
Alright, I've beat my head against the wall enough tonight, time to break down and beg for help. Thanks! [ November 13, 2006: Message edited by: Dave Hill ]
Most likely you have a version conflict between different component jars.
I do know that EL has some major warts, since just last week I was fighting a situation where the EL Exception class couldn't be located. I wish I could remember the details, but basically, there was something like an EL definition in Tomcat's jsp-api.jar, but a different EL definition in Tomahawk . Or something like that. Apache commons-el was also involved in the fight, IIRC.
I think the problem is ultimately rooted in the transition between different EL versions and the whole movement towards unified EL. Maybe a little googling will help you.
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Lars, actually that was MyFaces (who can remember all these different faces), but I experimented with removing the JSP jar and then found that the 2.0 jar was deployed with the facelets-1.1.9 jars. Then I figured what the heck, and uploaded one of their sample jars. Runs great.
It's midnight, but tomorrow I'll work on figuring out what jars they used, what else I might need, and what versions all play nice together. Thanks!
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Got it (finally). There were two things that needed changed.
Had to revert back to an OLDER version of JSF (jsf-1.1_02-b08) since the newer version isn't compatible with the version of JSP that Tomcat 5.5.x runs
Also had to delete the JSP-API.jar that I was including in my WAR.
The two things together, plus the delay of having to upload the war, made this a bugger to solve. Thanks everyone! I'm glad I asked for help on this one.
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