如何将War文件中的JSF页面连接到Enterprise Application中jar文件中的托管bean

Question

My JSF Java Enterprise application is not able to reach the backing bean; the error message being -

/master/currency/addCurrency.xhtml @19,94 value="#{addCurrencyController.code}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'addCurrencyController' resolved to null

I have scanned previous question here, and the solution (question #7663818) is to have a blank faces-config.xml in META-INF folder of the jar file. In that case, the jar file was part of the war file. I am not able to make it work as my xhtml is in war, the AddCurrencyController request-scoped managed bean is in jar and both are packaged in an ear.

My application.xml is Maven generated and is given below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application 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/application_6.xsd" version="6">
  <display-name>ruwi-app</display-name>
  <module>
    <web>
      <web-uri>ruwi-web-1.0.war</web-uri>
      <context-root>/ruwi</context-root>
    </web>
  </module>
  <module>
    <ejb>ruwi-ejb-1.0.jar</ejb>
  </module>
  <library-directory>lib</library-directory>
</application>

I'm using Netbeans 7.3 Beta 2 IDE, server is the bundled GlassFish.

Thanks

-- MH

Answer 1

It works only if the JAR containing the managed bean is in WAR's /WEB-INF/lib folder (and thus not when the JAR is in EAR's /lib !) and that the JAR has a JSF 2.0 compatible /META-INF/faces-config.xml (and thus not a blank one!)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config
    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"
    version="2.0">
</faces-config>

You should also ensure that your webapp's /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml does not have the metadata-complete="true" attribute set.