It´s because the facesservlet doesn´t handle the request. You should be able to create a servlet filter which contains the code of the facesservlet to initialize the stuff and process the jsf request.
Hope that´s helps a little bit. Regards, Mathias John Schneider schrieb: > I have set up precompilation of a myfaces web app according to the > instructions found at > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/jasper-howto.html > > Precompilation completes successfully. There are no errors; only a warning > about not being able to initialize Log4J. > > Not precompiling things, everything works fine. However, when I precompile, > I > get a NullPointerException when the servlet tries to render the f:view. > Please review the relevent information below, and help me figure out what I > am doing wrong! > > Thanks, > > John Schneider > > > ----- web.xml ------ > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <web-app version="2.4" > xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee > http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd";> > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.success_jsp</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.apache.jsp.success_jsp</servlet-class> > </servlet> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.success_jsp</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/success.jsf</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > <context-param> > <param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name> > > <param-value>/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-managed-beans.xml,/WEB-INF/faces-navigation.xml</param-value> > </context-param> > <context-param> > <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name> > <param-value>server</param-value> > </context-param> > <!-- Listener, that does all the startup work (configuration, init). --> > <listener> > > <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class> > </listener> > </web-app> > > > ----- success.jsp ------ > > <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; prefix="h" %> > <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f" %> > <html> > <head> > <title>Success Page</title> > </head> > <body> > <f:view> > <h:outputText value="success"/> > </f:view> > </body> > </html> > > > ----- And here is the Error ------ > > 15:20:26,099 INFO FacesConfigurator:226 - Reading standard config > org/apache/myfaces/resource/standard-faces-config.xml > 15:20:31,016 INFO FacesConfigurator:385 - Reading config > jar:file:/var/tmp/myfaces57459.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml > 15:20:34,835 INFO FacesConfigurator:385 - Reading config > jar:file:/var/tmp/myfaces57460.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml > 15:20:35,044 INFO FacesConfigurator:420 - Reading > config /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml > 15:20:35,124 INFO FacesConfigurator:420 - Reading > config /WEB-INF/faces-managed-beans.xml > 15:20:35,352 INFO FacesConfigurator:420 - Reading > config /WEB-INF/faces-navigation.xml > 15:20:35,511 INFO FacesConfigurator:435 - Reading > config /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml > 15:20:41,497 INFO StartupServletContextListener:122 - ServletContext > '/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.5/webapps/urban4life.com-0.1-dev/' initialized. > 15:21:38,933 ERROR success_jsp]:260 - Servlet.service() for servlet > org.apache.jsp.success_jsp threw exception > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.setupResponseWriter(UIComponentTag.java:646) > at > javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.doStartTag(UIComponentTag.java:254) > at org.apache.myfaces.taglib.core.ViewTag.doStartTag(ViewTag.java:90) > at org.apache.jsp.success_jsp._jspx_meth_f_view_0(success_jsp.java:79) > at org.apache.jsp.success_jsp._jspService(success_jsp.java:56) > at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) > at > org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) > at > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856) > at > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
