Re: newBee question : what are these additional declaration in web.xml for jsf stuff.

[Legolas Woodland]

Hi Dean, I have changed my web.xml  file as follow : <servlet>        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>    </servlet>    <!-- Faces Servlet Mapping -->    <servlet-mapping>        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>        <url-pattern>*.leg</url-pattern>    </servlet-mapping> I have *No* .leg file in my web root file. i have files like : index.jsp logout.jsp login.jsp When i tried to access my index.jsp using the following url : http://127.0.0.1:8080/test/index.leg it return HTTP Status 404 - what else i should configure to use .leg extension ? should i change all of myfiles extension to .leg? before this i used the formal /faces/* as a url pattern , on that time i could access my jsp files  using http://localhost:8080/test/faces/index.jsp Thanks Dean Hiller wrote: yes, I use *.jsf.  when a url http://localhost:8080/webapp/page.jsf is called, it calls the jsp in webroot of your war file.  I also personally put this in my web.xml..... <context-param>   <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>   <param-value>.jspx</param-value> </context-param> This allows me to name all my JSF jsps xxxx.jspx and I can name all my normal jsps(that are not for JSF) xxxxx.jsp.  I tried to figure out how I could use jsf in the url and in the file name in the war file, but it seems that cannot be done right now(or I could not figure it out). later, dean Legolas Woodland wrote: There are two declaration in web.xml that i can not understand these are : <servlet>        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>    </servlet>    <!-- Faces Servlet Mapping -->    <servlet-mapping>        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>        <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>    </servlet-mapping> I just can not understand , in some places they set another url-pattern , for example :        <url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern> and thier application works file. but for me with the first url-mapping , i should navigate to http://localhost:8080/testApp/faces/index.jsp to works so my understanding is that : when i navigate to that url , the pattern matches and filter applies to my request. but when people uses *.faces in url-pattern , how they navigate to jsp pages ? should they change the file extensions to use jsf pages , or there is some other triks ? Thank you