No, what I mean by that is I go to file->new->dynamic web project, and then follow the three screens that I get to setup a project. ANd when I say I add the apps to tomcat I mean I right click on the tomcat server from the project explorer, and select add/remove projects.
Here is what I do when creating a new project:
On the first screen:
For Target Runtime I use Apache 6
Dynamic web module version 2.5
Configuration - IceFaces Facelet Project (This option appeared when I downloaded the IceFaces for Eclipse plug in)
The second screen I leave as is
The third screen:
JSF libraries - Sun JSF RI v1.2_12 (implementation)(deployed)
component libraries - apache commons library and ICEFACEs library v1.8.0 (both deployed)(sometimes I will not use the apache commons library)
Then I hit finish. The project is created just fine, I can create a page with icefaces components and I get no errors at all, but then when I try to open it at local host or just compile it in eclipse I get a few SEVERE exceptions in the log.
I searched for ways to fix the exceptions, and one solution said to just copy and paste all the necessary JARs (which I found a list of) into tomcat/lib folder. Still no luck, the exact same problem over and over.
edit: the log:
SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class com.icesoft.faces.util.event.servlet.ContextEventRepeater
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
at com.icesoft.faces.util.event.servlet.ContextEventRepeater.<clinit>(ContextEventRepeater.java:99)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3787)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
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.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:627)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
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: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1387)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1233)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
... 31 more
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Skipped installing application listeners due to previous error(s)
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/iftest] startup failed due to previous errors
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-80
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/16 config=null
May 1, 2009 12:48:10 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 950 ms