initialization of state serialization within a portal environment

[Iordanov, Borislav \(GIC\)]

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(StateUtils.java:174) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.util.StateUtils.construct(StateUtils.java:150) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at org.apache.myfaces.renderkit.html.HtmlResponseStateManager.writeState(HtmlResponseStateManager.java:73) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.writeState(JspStateManagerImpl.java:430) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at org.apache.myfaces.taglib.core.ViewTag.doAfterBody(ViewTag.java:145) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at org.apache.jsp._srselect._jspService(_srselect.java:942) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:89) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:344) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:683) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:781) [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)   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