Connection refused: connect in faces-config.xml

[Vani Sreedharan]

I have an EAR which has a web project developed using JSF. When i import the EAR in WSAD 5.1.2 error occurs in the following line of faces-config.xml,

<!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC
"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces Config 1.1//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd">

Application fails to deploy. Reason - Connection refused: connect.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Vani

[Ali Gohar]

have you included the correct jar files for JSF in the classpath?

[Vani Sreedharan]

Have not included any JARS as this was a ready made EAR. I tried importing it in a workspace in WSAD 5.1.2.
This error goes off when that DTD was imported to local and that path was given in faces-config.xml.But cant proceed with this option as the EAR has to be deployed in different websphere boxes and local path cant be extended or placing the dtd in all machines is unnecessary.

It will be of great help if you can tell what are the jars to be placed in classpath?

[Ali Gohar]

The EAR should have the appropriate jar files like if it is using MyFaces then it should have MyFaces jar files which can be downloaded at
myfaces.apache.org/download.html

if it is using Sun's JSF implementation then it should include those jars, which can be downloaded at java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/download.html

You faces-config in your previous post tells that it is using JSF version 1.1, so that EAR should have version 1.1 jar files

[Eric Leschinski]

I got the error: "java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect"

What I was trying to do was validate an blahContext.xml file with a parser, but the problem comes when the parser tries to go out and validate the doctype dtd link.

myxml.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<beans>
    <bean id="foobar"
        class="foo.bar.baz"
        singleton="false">
        <property name="foobar2">
            <ref bean="foobar2"/>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

The following code produces the error mentioned at the top. The failure happens when the parser goes out to validate the dtd link.

It works if you uncomment the commented lines where I overload the resolver to not do anything on link resolving. Bonus: it validates the other XML entities in the document.

Used these includes:

import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;

    public void validate_context_xml_file()
    {
         try {

            File fXmlFile = new File("C:\\myxml.xml");

            DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

            DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();

           // uncomment the below lines to get rid of the 'connection refused: connect' error:

           // dBuilder.setEntityResolver(new EntityResolver(){
           //     public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId){
           //         return new InputSource(
           //         new ByteArrayInputStream("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>".getBytes()));
           //     }});

            Document doc = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile);

            doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

            System.out.println("Root element :" + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
            NodeList nList = doc.getElementsByTagName("staff");
            System.out.println("-----------------------");

            for (int temp = 0; temp < nList.getLength(); temp++) {

               Node nNode = nList.item(temp);
               if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {

                  Element eElement = (Element) nNode;

                  System.out.println("Last Name : "  + getTagValue("lastname",eElement));
                  System.out.println("Nick Name : "  + getTagValue("nickname",eElement));
                  System.out.println("Salary : "  + getTagValue("salary",eElement));

                }
            }
          }
         catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
          }
  }


 private String getTagValue(String sTag, Element eElement){
    NodeList nlList= eElement.getElementsByTagName(sTag).item(0).getChildNodes();
    Node nValue = (Node) nlList.item(0);

    return nValue.getNodeValue();
 }