Error configuring application listener

[Matthew Snow]

I'm trying to deploy a small facelets app to tomcat 5.5.17 and I keep getting this error. These are the jars I'm using and the tomcat log:

commons-beanutils 1.7.0
commons-digester 1.8
jsf-api 1.2
jsf-impl 1.2
jsf-facelets 1.1.12
jstl 1.0

ay 16, 2007 9:19:59 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: D:\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin;.
May 16, 2007 9:19:59 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
May 16, 2007 9:19:59 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 2203 ms
May 16, 2007 9:19:59 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
May 16, 2007 9:19:59 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.17
May 16, 2007 9:19:59 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
May 16, 2007 9:20:01 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class com.sun.faces.config.GlassFishConfigureListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ExpressionFactory
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3678)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4187)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
May 16, 2007 9:20:01 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Skipped installing application listeners due to previous error(s)
May 16, 2007 9:20:01 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
May 16, 2007 9:20:01 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/JSF-Test] startup failed due to previous errors
May 16, 2007 9:20:01 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
May 16, 2007 9:20:02 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
May 16, 2007 9:20:02 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/110 config=null
May 16, 2007 9:20:02 AM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
May 16, 2007 9:20:02 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 3016 ms

[Matthew Snow]

Solved. It has to do with Tomcat 5.0 not supporting the Servlet Spec v2.5 or above, it only supports 2.4. To get JSF to work then, you need to use version 1.1_01. Also, jars el-api and el-ri also need to be included in the classpath for facelets to work. So the final class path looks like this.

commons-beanutils 1.7.0
commons-digester 1.8
el-api 1.0
el-ri 1.0
jsf-api 1.1_01
jsf-impl 1.1_01
jsf-facelets 1.1.12
jstl 1.0
standard 1.1.2