[Curt King]

I’ve created a standard Web Project and used the “MyEclipse…Add JSF Capabilities” menu option to add JSF functionality. I’ve built a little two-page app to test JSF. It works fine when I deploy it as an Exploded Archive to my local Tomcat server. But when I deploy it as a Packaged Archive, the app will not run. (Tomcat can’t find the Faces Servlet.)

Looking at the WAR file, none of the JSF JARs are included. The WAR file contains my JSPs and classes, but not the jsf-api.jar, jsf-impl.jar, or jstl-1.2 jar files.

If I add these JARs manually to the deployed web app, the web app runs fine.

In another thread, Nipun says:

The J2EE/Java EE libraries are never deployed and should never be deployed, they are provided by the application server at runtime and some application servers will even refuse to load your web-app if it detects copies of core classes like that.

(Sorry if I’m taking that quote out of context.)

Here’s a link to that thread:
https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/java-ee-libraries-not-getting-deployed-and-icefaces-missing/&highlight=jsf+war&sid=0a90b6ab48eff6498f60c2ab189ed5e9

So I’m confused — should these three JARs be in the /Tomcat/lib directory or should they be exported in the WAR file with the rest of my web app?

Thanks,
Curt

[Loyal Water]

So I’m confused — should these three JARs be in the /Tomcat/lib directory or should they be exported in the WAR file with the rest of my web app?

The confusion comes from the fact that with Java EE 5 and beyond, JSF 1.2 is part of the spec — so any Java EE 5 compliant server (JBoss, Glassfish, Sun App Server, WebLogic, etc. etc.) will provide their own JSF jars for JSF application in the server’s lib directory — they *have* to.

The problem is that Tomcat and Jetty are both super-popular servers that are NOT completely Java EE 5 compliant servers — they provide a lot of support for Servlets, JSP and the other basics, but they don’t ship their own support for EJB containers or JSF libs I guess– so in THOSE cases, you have to deploy the libs to those servers.

This is managed by way of the library-filtering feature we have in MyEclipse… if you go to Window > Prefs > Project Caps > JSF and expand out any of the libraries, there should be a filter node called “Server Deployments” and from there you can tell MyEclipse which servers which libraries should get deployed and which shouldn’t.

The odd thing is that with JSF, in packaged mode, to Tomcat, MyEclipse should be deploying those. Can you double check those settings.

[Curt King]

I’m looking at the Preferences tab that you referred to (Project Capabilities > JavaServer Faces) and under both “jsf-api.jar” and “jsf-impl.jar”, I see “Server deployment excludes: (None).”

Here’s an interesting wrinkle:

When I deploy as a WAR file to the “MyEclipse Tomcat” server or the “Tomcat 6.x” server, the JARs are included. When I deploy to “<Externally Launched>” (in my case, a network drive that maps to a /Tomcat/webapps directory), the JARs are not included.

If you need any other details, such as configuration info, please let me know.

Curt

[support-joy]

Curt,

For a workaround, you can add these jar files as ‘Add External Jar files’ to the project build path.

[Curt King]

Great workaround, Joy. Much better than deploying the JARs into the Tomcat/lib directory, which was my first inclination.

This isn’t a huge issue for me, and I know you guys are swamped with 7.5 and other stuff, so whenever you can get to it, it’s OK.

Thanks,
Curt

[support-joy]

Thanks Curt. Yes, it would help if you can share your installation details with us. You can get it from MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Details. Also do you have any third party plugins installed with ME? If yes, can you also list them out? You can get them from Help > Software Updates > Add/Remove Software.

[Curt King]

Here are my installation details:

*** Date: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:16:22 AM CDT

** System properties:
OS=WindowsXP
OS version=5.1.0
Java version=1.5.0_11


*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 7.1.1
Build id: 7.1.1-20090310


*** Eclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench

Version: 7.1.1
Build id: 7.1.1-20090310




Eclipse Platform

Version: 3.4.1.r341_v20080731-9I96EiDElYevwz-p1bP5z-NlAaP7vtX6Utotqsu
Build id: M20080911-1700


Eclipse Java Development Tools

Version: 3.4.1.r341_v20080709-0800-7o7tEAfEF_U5qyUgrb2HAp539P97
Build id: M20080709-0800


Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework GEF

Version: 3.4.1.v20080806-67718083A56B4H2A3213573
Build id: 200809101400


Eclipse RCP

Version: 3.4.100.r341_v20080814-989JESIEdAciFYfkZZsBfSwQ2341
Build id: M20080703-0800


Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Version: 3.4.1.r341_v20080731-7T7U0E9mlRIuGUYviF_VP
Build id: M20080703-0800




Eclipse startup command=-os
win32
-ws
win32
-arch
x86
-showsplash
-launcher
C:\Program Files\Genuitec\MyEclipse 7.0\myeclipse.exe
-name
Myeclipse
--launcher.library
C:\Program Files\Genuitec\MyEclipse 7.0\../Common\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.101.R34x_v20080731\eclipse_1115.dll
-startup
C:\Program Files\Genuitec\MyEclipse 7.0\../Common\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20080819.jar
-clean
-configuration
C:\Program Files\Genuitec\MyEclipse 7.0\configuration
-vm
C:\Program Files\Genuitec\Common\binary\com.sun.java.jre.win32.x86_1.5.0.011\bin\client\jvm.dll

I do have several third-party plugins installed:

Groovy
FindBugs
Checkstyle
TPTP

Curt

[support-joy]

Thank you Curt.

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