Primefaces taglib with JSF on Tomcat rendering empty pages

Lately I found out about this great taglib, Primefaces. It's absolutely perfect for what I need to do, but I'm being stuck on trying to make it do anything, even render the examples from their website.

So I've been following this tutorial I found (sadly, there aren't many of them on the subject of Primefaces): http://java.dzone.com/articles/primefaces-quickstart-tutorial Step by step, I made everything according to this tutorial, yet when I run it, it renders an empty page every time.

So I tried a simpler example from the official website: http://www.primefaces.org/gettingStarted.html

This (test.xhtml):

renders an empty page, while this:

renders only the "test test test test" text.

So I guess the problem must be in the tags, tomcat doesn't see them/doesn't know how to interprete them. But, according to the tutorial and the primefaces website all I need to do is to put the jars in WEB-INF/lib as I have done (by the way, I'm using Eclipse and the empty project I created was "Dynamic Web Project"). In my WEB-INF/lib I have the following jars:

jsf-api-2.0.3.jar

jsf-impl-2.0.3.jar

jstl-1.0.2.jar

primefaces-3.3.RC1.jar

If it's of any help, here's the content of the tomcat console:

2012-05-27 13:18:11 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: .:/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java
2012-05-27 13:18:12 org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:Primefaces1' did not find a matching property.
2012-05-27 13:18:12 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
2012-05-27 13:18:12 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1127 ms
2012-05-27 13:18:12 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
2012-05-27 13:18:12 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.35
2012-05-27 13:18:13 com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener contextInitialized
INFO: Initializing Mojarra 2.0.3 (SNAPSHOT 20100726) for context '/Primefaces1'
2012-05-27 13:18:17 org.primefaces.webapp.PostConstructApplicationEventListener processEvent
INFO: Running on PrimeFaces 3.3.RC1
2012-05-27 13:18:17 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
2012-05-27 13:18:17 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
2012-05-27 13:18:17 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/63  config=null
2012-05-27 13:18:17 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 5096 ms

What can be the case? Am I putting the jars in wrong place, is it a tomcat failure or maybe something else entirely?

Hi Natalia,

Your code seems to be fine. But I guess you have not configured the Faces servlet in the web.xml file. The tomcat console logs that you have specified does not seem to implement JSF jar. I suggest you configure the facesServlet and servlet mapping(url pattern) in the web.xml to get your code working

Hope this helps.