h：inputText-字段可见吗？

Question

i am developing a jsf web application with netbeans.

    <fieldset>
        <div>
           <h:inputText id="firstname" value="#{loginCtrl.customer.name}" label="Name">
                  <f:validateLength minimum="3" maximum="8"/>
           </h:inputText>
        <div>
...

I wrote that code but when I deploy it to the apache tomcat server, there is no field shown? Why? h:input has no visibility element?

greetings and thx in advance

PS.: my web.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" 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-app_3_0.xsd">
    <context-param>
        <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
        <param-value>Development</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>faces/register.jsf</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

Answer 1

Make sure that the request URL as you see in browser's address bar matches the URL pattern of the FacesServlet as specified in web.xml . You can verify this by rightclicking the page in browser and viewing the generated HTML source. If the <h:inputText> is still there, then it means that the FacesServlet isn't been invoked at all.

If you open the page by /page.xhtml , then the FacesServlet is apparently not mapped on *.xhtml , but on *.jsf or something else. You'd need to change the URL in browser's address bar accordingly to match exactly the specified URL pattern, or to fix the mapping accordingly.

Answer 2

h:input has no visibility element?

Yes, the h:inputText element have rendered attribute:

<h:inputText id="firstname" rendered="true" value="#{loginCtrl.customer.name}" 
    label="Name">
      <f:validateLength minimum="3" maximum="8"/>
</h:inputText>

But the defalut is true so the preblem is not with that...