Are you guys familiar with
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-1338 which I think is very
closely related?

Iordanov, Borislav (GIC) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for prompt response. 
> 
> MyFaces currently integrates with portlets with a MyFacesGenericPortlet
> which contains faces initialization code. I think this replaces some
> other listener usually declared in web.xml (don't remember anymore). In
> any case, why have is state serialization initialized separately from
> the rest of MyFaces init code at all?
> 
> I think the listener is not being called because it's declared in a TLD
> and myfaces-impl.jar is placed as a common, shared library on the
> server, i.e. not attached to a particular web context.
> 
> In general, it would be a good idea to place initialization stuff in
> classes that are not bound to a particular execution environment (e.g.
> have the startup listener, or the portlet init method call a
> "MyFacesBootstrap" class or something). It's a small refactoring task,
> but it'll avoid that duplication of the init program.
> 
> If I place the initialization code in the portlet (copied over and
> called handleSerialFactory from the startup listener), it works...
> 
> Best,
> Bolerio
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Byrne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:43 PM
> To: MyFaces Discussion
> Subject: Re: initialization of state serialization within a portal
> environment
> 
> Hi Borislav,
> 
> I am the author of your problem, but I am not a Portlet developer.
> Perhaps I can help you fix this and you can educate me more on portlets?
> 
> Why isn't StartupServletContextListener is called?
> 
> What happens if you can fire something like this as your application
> starts ...
> 
> if(servletContext.getInitParameter(StateUtils.INIT_SECRET) != null ||
> servletContext.getInitParameter(StateUtils.INIT_SECRET.toLowerCase()) !=
> null)
>             StateUtils.initSecret(servletContext);
> 
> Which version of MyFaces are you using?
> 
> If anyone has ideas as to how MyFaces can fix this, be heard here.
> 
> Dennis Byrne
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Iordanov, Borislav \(GIC\) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 04:21 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: initialization of state serialization within a portal
> environment
>> 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(StateUtil
> s
>> .java:174)
>>
>> [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at
>> org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.util.StateUtils.construct(StateUtils.jav
> a
>> :150)
>>
>> [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at
>> org.apache.myfaces.renderkit.html.HtmlResponseStateManager.writeState(H
> t
>> mlResponseStateManager.java:73)
>>
>> [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at
>> org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.writeState(JspSt
> a
>> teManagerImpl.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.jav
> a
>> :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.servic
> e
>> (JspServlet.java:344)
>>
>> [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at
>> com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServle
> t
>> .java:683)
>>
>> [9/12/06 16:00:33:839 EDT] 5fd004e0 SystemErr     R       at
>> com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:
> 7
>> 81)
>>
>> [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
>>
>>
> 
> 


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Dave Brondsema
Software Developer
Cornerstone University

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