I'm developing a software based upon Spring and ICEFaces.
I have a file at <project directory>/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/<filename>.xhtml, that is correctly reached using the following URL: http://<hostname>/<projectname>/<filename>.xhtml
The file contains a <h:form id="formId"> which is rendered as a <form action="/<projectname>/WEB-INF/views/<filename>.xhtml" [.. some other stuff ..]>
It means that, when I click on the input submit contained in the form, the browser tries to open the URL http://<hostname>/<projectname>/WEB-INF/views/<filename>.xhtml and, as I said in the title, it shows an error 404 page.
I'd like that the file .xhtml could be reached using the "longer" URL, too. I'm pretty sure that I'm currently unable to achieve that due to a configuration error.
This is my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">
<web-app>
<display-name>SIGLO</display-name>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>DispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
This is the applicationContext.xml referenced in the previous file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd" >
<context:component-scan base-package="com.infoone.siglo" />
<!--
map all requests to /resources/** to the container default servlet
(ie, don't let Spring handle them)
-->
<bean id="defaultServletHttpRequestHandler" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.DefaultServletHttpRequestHandler" />
<bean id="simpleUrlHandlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping" >
<property name="urlMap" >
<map>
<entry key="/resources/**" value-ref="defaultServletHttpRequestHandler" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.HttpRequestHandlerAdapter" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<!-- JSF for representation layer. All JSF files under /WEB-INF/views directory -->
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver" >
<property name="cache" value="false" />
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.faces.mvc.JsfView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<bean name="icefacesResourceHandler" class="org.springframework.faces.webflow.JsfResourceRequestHandler" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="order" value="0" />
<property name="mappings">
<value>
/javax.faces.resource/**=icefacesResourceHandler
</value>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
And, in the end, this is my faces-config.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd">
<application>
<el-resolver>org.springframework.web.jsf.el.SpringBeanFacesELResolver</el-resolver>
<locale-config></locale-config>
<resource-bundle>
<base-name>MessageResources</base-name>
<var>msg</var>
</resource-bundle>
</application>
</faces-config>
Let me point out that this configuration still does not allow me to open successfully the shorter URL. Indeed, I have to create a proper controller or, better, a proper @RequestMapping inside a @Controller:
@RequestMapping(value = "<filename>", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String creaBlocco()
{
return "<filename>";
}
@RequestMapping(value = "<filename>", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String creaBlocco([.. parameters ..]) {
[.. stuff ..]
return "<filename>";
}
Yes, the value of the @RequestMapping is "<filename>", without the .xhtml extension. I already made sure, by trial and error, that such mapping is necessary for the GET to be successful. On the other hand, I realize that such configuration is really fragile. What should I change in my config files, in order to make <filename>.xhtml reachable using also the longer URL?
Thanks in advance for your attention.
