Recently I was trying to upgrade my application from RF-4.1.0.Final to RF-4.3.2.Final.
Application Server I am using is Tomcat-7 and the project is built using Maven.
Few issues that I had faced:
1. In the bom of RichFaces, the version of JSF-API being used is
<version.com.sun.faces.jsf-api>2.1.0</version.com.sun.faces.jsf-api>
but the version of JSF-IMPL put in use is:
<version.org.jboss.javax.faces.jsf-impl>2.1.19-jbossorg-1</version.org.jboss.javax.faces.jsf-impl>
Both the version don't seem to go together. Got the following stack-trace:
SEVERE: ContainerBase.addChild: start:
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/abc]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:977)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1655)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.faces.config.InitFacesContext.cleanupInitMaps(InitFacesContext.java:281)
at com.sun.faces.config.InitFacesContext.<init>(InitFacesContext.java:107)
at com.sun.faces.config.FacesInitializer.onStartup(FacesInitializer.java:115)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5274)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 11 more
May 21, 2013 11:30:43 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
SEVERE: Error deploying web application archive F:\DevTools\apache-tomcat-7.0.34\webapps\abc.war
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/abc]]
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:904)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:977)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1655)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
I had to manually delete the 2.1.0 jsf-api jar from the war file and copy 2.1.19, with this I was able to bypass this error.
2. Then in next step, I am already using Rewrite-2.0.0.Final, which is clashing with the dependency,
<version.rewrite>1.0.4.Final</version.rewrite>
which is defined in the Richfaces bom.
Exception stacktrace:
SEVERE: Exception starting filter OCPsoft Rewrite Filter
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.ocpsoft.common.util.Iterators.asUniqueList(Ljava/lang/Iterable;)Ljava/util/List;
at org.ocpsoft.rewrite.servlet.RewriteFilter.init(RewriteFilter.java:75)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:278)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:259)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:383)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4650)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5306)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1114)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1673)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
I tried deleting this jar from the war file rewrite-servlet-1.0.4.Final.jar
After this the application gets depoyed correctly without any stacktraces, but still am not able to view the pages, maybe something's still breaking the application.
Few things I am trying to understand here, as you can see the project is built using maven, so is there a way I can ignore these dependencies to make the project deployment?
Are richfaces component incomptaible with rewrite ver. 2.0.0.Final?
Parts of maven, where I have defined the dependency, but it still packages the excluded jar in the war file:
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.richfaces</groupId>
<artifactId>richfaces-bom</artifactId>
<version>4.3.2.Final</version>
<scope>import</scope>
<type>pom</type>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.ocpsoft.rewrite</groupId>
<artifactId>rewrite-servlet</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
