Hello team, I have moved this to the dev list because Boris raises some important questions. Does anyone know if there are outstanding JIRA issues for some of these things ?
Boris, you may want to subscribe to the dev list. Thanks. Dennis Byrne >-----Original Message----- >From: Iordanov, Borislav \(GIC\) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 05:36 PM >To: 'MyFaces Discussion' >Subject: RE: initialization of state serialization within a portal environment > >Hi, > >Thanks for prompt response. > >MyFaces currently integrates with portlets with a MyFacesGenericPortlet >which contains faces initialization code. I think this replaces some >other listener usually declared in web.xml (don't remember anymore). In >any case, why have is state serialization initialized separately from >the rest of MyFaces init code at all? > >I think the listener is not being called because it's declared in a TLD >and myfaces-impl.jar is placed as a common, shared library on the >server, i.e. not attached to a particular web context. > >In general, it would be a good idea to place initialization stuff in >classes that are not bound to a particular execution environment (e.g. >have the startup listener, or the portlet init method call a >"MyFacesBootstrap" class or something). It's a small refactoring task, >but it'll avoid that duplication of the init program. > >If I place the initialization code in the portlet (copied over and >called handleSerialFactory from the startup listener), it works... > >Best, >Bolerio > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dennis Byrne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:43 PM >To: MyFaces Discussion >Subject: Re: initialization of state serialization within a portal >environment > >Hi Borislav, > >I am the author of your problem, but I am not a Portlet developer. >Perhaps I can help you fix this and you can educate me more on portlets? > >Why isn't StartupServletContextListener is called? > >What happens if you can fire something like this as your application >starts ... > >if(servletContext.getInitParameter(StateUtils.INIT_SECRET) != null || >servletContext.getInitParameter(StateUtils.INIT_SECRET.toLowerCase()) != >null) > StateUtils.initSecret(servletContext); > >Which version of MyFaces are you using? > >If anyone has ideas as to how MyFaces can fix this, be heard here. > >Dennis Byrne > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Iordanov, Borislav \(GIC\) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 04:21 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: initialization of state serialization within a portal >environment >> >>Hi, >> >>I get this in WebSphere Portal: >> >>Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: serialFactory >> >>[9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr R at >>org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.util.StateUtils.getAsByteArray(StateUtil >s >> >> >>It's because the StartupServletContextListener is not called. >>Initialization actually happens in the portlet itself (faces-config.xml >>is parsed there etc.). Any suggestion of how to deal with this issue? >>Just copy & paste the code from StartupServletContext in my portlet? >>What would be a fix within myfaces? >> >> >> >>Regards, >> >>Bolerio >> >> > > >
