JSF Configuration problem

[Asheesh Nehra]

I am new to JSF , try to deploy first simple project and facing configuration error.

I also added this listener but error remains the same and using Tomcat 5.5 web server.

   <listener>
  	<listener-class>
  		com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
  	</listener-class>
  </listener>
 

Please help me out.

error is

    SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/faces/FacesException
	at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2357)
	at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2671)
	at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:321)
	at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3608)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4097)
	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.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:918)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:881)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:475)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1126)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1020)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1012)
	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:683)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:537)
	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:585)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:271)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:409)

[Tim Holloway]

In JEE 5 servers like JBoss and Glassfish, the jsf-impl classes are provided by the server. However, with Tomcat, you have to include a jsf-impl.jar in your WAR. In Tomcat 5.5, I think you may also need an el-impl jar (Tomcat 6 provides one, but not Tomcat 5.5).

You can use any JSF standard core implementation to provide the jsf-impl jar. I've used both the Run RI and Apache MyFaces. Either one works well.