Cannot retrieve Lifecycle object : IllegalStateException

[Venkat Rao]

I have a normal functional JSF application which is working fine. When I introduce the following statement in it:           LifecycleFactory lifecycleFactory = (LifecycleFactory)             FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.LIFECYCLE_FACTORY);   it complains with the message:   Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Factories configured for this Application. This happens if the faces-initialization does not work at all - make sure that you properly include all configuration settings necessary for a basic faces application and that all the necessary libs are included. Also check the logging output of your web application and your container for any exceptions! If you did that and find nothing, the mistake might be due to the fact that you use some special web-containers which do not support registering context-listeners via TLD files and a context listener is not setup in your web.xml. A typical config looks like this; <listener>   <listener-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener</listener-class> </listener>         at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:90)   I am using JBoss, and do have the above <listener-class> configured in my web.xml – my JSF application was working normally before introducing the FactoryFinder call. Am I missing some configuration?   -- venkat