MyFaces Portlet Issue on WebSphere 5.1

[Louis Burroughs]

Issue:

My Faces portlets are not rendering.  I think it's because the FacesServlet is not being invoked to render the faces content.  

If I set my default-view to mypage.jsf or mypage.faces instead of mypage.jsp in the portlet.xml get an IllegalStateException telling me it cannot redirect because the response has already been commited.

If I set my default-view to mypage.jsp and mypage.jsp has jsf tags for content I get an IllegalStateException telling me the the URI has to be absolute.

Lastly, if I set my default-view to index.jsp and index.jsp redirects to home.jsf,  I get nothing (a blank portlet with no exceptions).
<%
        response.sendRedirect("home.jsf");
%>

Environment:
MyFaces 1.1.1
WebSphere Portal Server 5.1
 WebSphere App Server 5.1

Here is the trace of the last scenario:

[12/14/05 15:25:20:620 EST] 2a41f82b  e UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl class=org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          exiting renderResponse in org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl
[12/14/05 15:25:20:620 EST] 2a41f82b  I UOW=  source=com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.WebGroup org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=Application Server
          SRVE0180I: [PTW_V3] [/wps/PA_1_0_1UH] [Servlet.LOG]: BodyPortlet: init
[12/14/05 15:25:20:620 EST] 2a41f82b  I UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.portlet.MyFacesGenericPortlet class=org.apache.myfaces.portlet.MyFacesGenericPortlet method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          MyFaces already initialized
[12/14/05 15:25:20:620 EST] 2a41f82b  I UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.portlet.MyFacesGenericPortlet class=org.apache.myfaces.portlet.MyFacesGenericPortlet method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          PortletContext 'C:\PROGRA~1\PORTAL~1\PORTAL~1\installedApps\PTW_V3_PA_1_0_1UH.ear\PTW_V3.war' initialized.
[12/14/05 15:25:20:620 EST] 2a41f82b  e UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.portlet.MyFacesGenericPortlet class=org.apache.myfaces.portlet.MyFacesGenericPortlet method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          called facesRender
[12/14/05 15:25:20:620 EST] 2a41f82b  e UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.portlet.MyFacesGenericPortlet class=org.apache.myfaces.portlet.MyFacesGenericPortlet method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          Non-faces request: contextPath = /wps/PA_1_0_1UH
[12/14/05 15:25:20:620 EST] 2a41f82b  e UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspViewHandlerImpl class=org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspViewHandlerImpl method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          Created view /index.jsp
[12/14/05 15:25:20:620 EST] 2a41f82b  e UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl class=org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          entering renderResponse in org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl
[12/14/05 15:25:22:173 EST] 2a41f82b  I UOW=  source=com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.WebGroup org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=Application Server
          SRVE0180I: [PTW_V3] [/wps/PA_1_0_1UH] [Servlet.LOG]: /index.jsp: init
[12/14/05 15:25:22:183 EST] 2a41f82b  e UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.util.DebugUtils class=org.apache.myfaces.util.DebugUtils method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          View after rendering
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<UIViewRoot id="NULL" family="javax.faces.ViewRoot" locale="en_US" renderKitId="HTML_BASIC" rendered="true" rendererType="NULL" rendersChildren="false" transient="false" viewId="/index.jsp"/>
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[12/14/05 15:25:22:183 EST] 2a41f82b  e UOW=  source=org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl class=org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl method= org=IBM prod=WebSphere component=UNKNOWN
          exiting renderResponse in org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl


Louis M. Burroughs III