Thanks for the info, Peter. I'm somewhat new to using Tomcat, so if there's somewhere particular I should post this as a bug, please let me know.
It is at least comforting to know that I can work around this by avoiding the use of a wildcard mapping to the JSF servlet. Thanks, - Tim -----Original Message----- From: Peter Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Nov 8, 2005 10:07 AM To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Subject: Re: Use of JSF view in welcome file list Tim Dean wrote: > Peter, > > Thanks for the example: I had seen examples like this in the archives, which > is why I thought that I could do what I'm trying to do: I want the same kind > of behavior you are describing, but with a mapping to the Faces servlet > instead. > > If the examply you've provided works, any ideas why my JSF setup would not > work? In my environment, I request "http://localhost:8080/pdm/main.faces";, > which works fine. If I instead request "http://localhost:8080/pdm/";, it > instead shows me a directory listing of the files in my web app. > > Is there a problem with using a wildcard in my JSF servlet mapping that > causes it to fail with welcom files? Or is there something inherently odd > with JSF that makes this impossible to do? > > Thanks, > > - Tim Actually, I never worked with Faces before, so I can't tell. Therefore I tried with a normal servlet and wildcard extension: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Home</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.bar</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>foo.bar</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> and: accessing http://localhost/mywebapp/ prints the directory listing ! Unfortunately, that is not what I expected. Tomcat should have appended "foo.bar" to "/" resulting in "/foo.bar" and should then match Home servlet to this request. Using this mapping <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Home</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/foo.bar</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> Tomcat is invoking the Home Servlet. So this looks not like a specific JSF problem. It looks like a bug in Tomcat? The Servlet spec states: "The web server must append each welcome file in the order specified in the DD to the partial request and check whether a static resource or servlet in the WAR is mapped to that request URI." Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
