Try putting the icefaces and jsf jars in the tomcat/lib directory and let us know if you still get the error. Make sure to remove them from <<yourwebapp>>/WEB-INF/lib directory.
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:31 PM, David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 3, 2008, at 12:41 PM, JimOR wrote: > > > > 1)I would prefer to deploy my driver and openejb configuration in my > > > > ejb jar > > > > > > > > > > As noted in the other email, we can add support for that. > > > > > > > Sorry, didn't think my first post went through... Just a preference, not > > a > > show stopper... > > > > No problem. Gave a quick answer again primarily for the archives. > > > > > 2)When my war contains jsf and/or IceFaces, openejb throws the > > > > following(edited for brevity): > > > > ERROR - Unable to process annotation in /jsfWebapp: Exception: > > > > Unable to > > > > load servlet class: javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet: > > > > javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet > > > > org.apache.openejb.OpenEJBException: Unable to load servlet class: > > > > javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet: javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet > > > > at > > > > org.apache.openejb.config.AnnotationDeployer > > > > $ProcessAnnotatedBeans.deploy(AnnotationDeployer.java:557) > > > > at > > > > org > > > > .apache > > > > > > > > .openejb.config.AnnotationDeployer.deploy(AnnotationDeployer.java:181) > > > > > > > > > This one is a puzzler. I wonder if there's a class required by the > > > IceFaces impl of FacesServlet that isn't available. I went to pull > > > down the source and check what it might be but it's one of those > > > register/agree to get the source kind of projects. Do you know what > > > if any dependencies IceFaces has? > > > > > > > IceFaces (jsf implementation only, no ajax enablement or facelets) only > > requires a couple jars from the apache-commons family. I'm trusting > > Eclipse/WTP/IceFaces plugin to manage the dependencies, but my sample > > runs > > fine (instantiated the bean directly in the code) without OpenEJB > > installed. > > > > If you can whip up a tiny example that reproduces the problem, I'll be > happy to take a look at it. You can attach the war to this jira: > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENEJB-797 > > > I also tried a jsf implementation I got from the Glassfish project a few > > months back with the same result. Checked for a download link to give > > you, but it's now called Majorra and I'd need to d'l and run it before > > I'd > > have you chasing a red herring... > > > > One technique you might try is to comment out the FacesServlet servlet > > > declaration from the web.xml and try loading the class in another > > > servlet. If it works/doesn't work that gives us some indication on > > > where the problem might be. > > > > > > > JSF needs the url-mapping to work it's mojo before rendering the > > response. > > I'm afraid that kind of filter-chain wiring is beyond me, and it'll get > > more complicated when I add Facelets to the mix. I did try disabling > > the > > load-on-startup, but got the same result. > > > > JSF in general is beyond me :) Hopefully with the small sample war I can > run through the startup code in Tomcat/OpenEJB with a debugger and hunt down > the issue. > > -David > > -- Karan Singh Malhi
