New JSF project getting javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory

Hi, I’m having a problem where my JSF isn’t getting parsed correctly. I’m using IBM RAD, and a WebSphere 7 server. I created this page:

If I try to go to the web page using .xhtml in the URL, I get a blank page, and you can see the tags in the source. If I try to use .faces, I get the exception at the bottom.

Here’s what I’ve done:
- Created a new project using the new > Dynamic web project.
- Right-click the project > Properties > Project Facets, I have the following checked:

Dynamic Web Module

Java

Javascript

JavaServer Faces (version 1.2)

JSTL

WebSphere Web (Co-existence)

WebSphere Web (Extended)

I went under the build path, and added the following jars to my project:

commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar

commons-collections-3.2.1.jar

commons-digester-1.8.jar

commons-lang-2.1.jar

commons-logging.jar

jsf-api.jar

jsf-facelets.jar

jsf-impl.jar

jstl.jar

Here's my web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
	<display-name>NBCEJBWeb</display-name>
	
	<context-param>
		<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
		<param-value>server</param-value>
	</context-param>
	
	<context-param>
		<param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>
		<param-value>/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>

<context-param>
		<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
		<param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
	</context-param>
	
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
	
	
	<context-param>
		<param-name>com.sun.faces.enableRestoreView11Compatibility</param-name> 
		<param-value>true</param-value>
	</context-param>
	
	<context-param>
		<param-name>org.ajax4jsf.VIEW_HANDLERS</param-name>
		<param-value>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</param-value>
	</context-param>

<context-param>
		<param-name>facelets.BUILD_BEFORE_RESTORE</param-name>
		<param-value>false</param-value>
	</context-param>
	
	<welcome-file-list>
		<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
	</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

And my faces-config.xml:

Exception:

[11/19/12 16:17:19:555 EST] 0000001b webapp        E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp logServletError SRVE0293E: [Servlet Error]-[Faces Servlet]: 
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory: javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory
	at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:270)
	at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.init(FacesServlet.java:164)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:358)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.init(ServletWrapperImpl.java:168)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:737)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:500)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:178)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.handleRequest(WebApp.java:3826)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.handleRequest(WebGroup.java:276)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:931)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.handleRequest(WSWebContainer.java:1583)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:186)
	at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:455)
	at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewInformation(HttpInboundLink.java:384)
	at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.ready(HttpInboundLink.java:272)
	at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.sendToDiscriminators(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:214)
	at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.complete(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:113)
	at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165)
	at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
	at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
	at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:138)
	at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:204)
	at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:775)
	at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:905)
	at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1550)

I've done some searching around and I've tried removing the load-on-startup, and made sure I've got all the correct jar files. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

So just in case anybody else runs into this, I found what I did wrong. When I added my jars for jsf, I went to the build path and put them in there. I went back and took them out of there, and instead just put them in my "lib" folder. Works like a champ.

It's always something simple...

Be careful when doing that. WAS has JSF implementation jars built into WebSphere itself and you can get classpath conflicts. Check IBM's documentation for the proper way to build a JSF webapp for WAS.