Monday, January 26, 2009

org.ajax4jsf.config.ParsingException: No filter mapping set for a filter

It goes something like this:


ERROR [[/WaSFP]] Exception starting filter richfaces
javax.servlet.ServletException: Error parse web application config

Caused by: org.ajax4jsf.config.ParsingException: No filter mapping set for a filter richfaces
at org.ajax4jsf.config.WebXMLParser.init(WebXMLParser.java:131)
at org.ajax4jsf.config.WebXMLParser.init(WebXMLParser.java:199)

It seemed strange, because I had defined a filter mapping and It worked for me before, so why not now? I had something like this in my web.xml:

<!-- Richfaces configuration-->
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>
<param-value>blueSky</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<display-name>RichFaces Filter</display-name>
<filter-name>richfaces</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>richfaces</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Config</servlet-name> <!-- wrong, 'Faces Servlet' here-->
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Config</servlet-name> <!-- wrong again, 'Faces Servlet' here-->
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Eclipse 3.4 with JBoss tools - Richfaces VPE 3.0.0 CR1. Nerver trust the IDE :)