JSF components are not rendered when running Spring Boot app on Eclipse Tomcat - spring

Question

I have Spring Boot JSF application that runs fine on embedded Tomcat
but when trying to run it on Eclipse Tomcat, the jsf components are not getting rendered, here's my pom file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>gs-accessing-data-jpa</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.4.4.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.14</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.2.14</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
<artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<!--
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
-->
</plugins>
</build>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-releases</id>
<name>Spring Releases</name>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>org.jboss.repository.releases</id>
<name>JBoss Maven Release Repository</name>
<url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-releases</id>
<name>Spring Releases</name>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</project>
The main class:
package hello;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.faces.application.ProjectStage;
import javax.servlet.ServletContainerInitializer;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.HandlesTypes;
import org.apache.catalina.Context;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomScopeConfigurer;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerFactory;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatContextCustomizer;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory;
import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.ServletContextInitializer;
import org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import com.sun.faces.config.FacesInitializer;
#SpringBootApplication
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Application.class);
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class);
}
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(Application.class);
}
#Bean
public ServletContextInitializer servletContextCustomizer() {
return new ServletContextInitializer() {
#Override
public void onStartup(ServletContext sc) throws ServletException {
sc.setInitParameter(ProjectStage.PROJECT_STAGE_PARAM_NAME, ProjectStage.Development.name());
}
};
}
#Bean
public static CustomScopeConfigurer customScopeConfigurer() {
CustomScopeConfigurer configurer = new CustomScopeConfigurer();
configurer.setScopes(Collections.<String, Object>singletonMap(FacesViewScope.NAME, new FacesViewScope()));
return configurer;
}
#Bean
public EmbeddedServletContainerFactory embeddedServletContainerFactory() {
TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory tomcat = new TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory();
tomcat.addContextCustomizers(new TomcatContextCustomizer() {
#Override
public void customize(Context context) {
context.addServletContainerInitializer(new FacesInitializer(),
getServletContainerInitializerHandlesTypes(FacesInitializer.class));
context.addWelcomeFile("index.xhtml");
context.addMimeMapping("eot", "application/vnd.ms-fontobject");
context.addMimeMapping("ttf", "application/x-font-ttf");
context.addMimeMapping("woff", "application/x-font-woff");
}
});
return tomcat;
}
#SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
private Set<Class<?>> getServletContainerInitializerHandlesTypes(
Class<? extends ServletContainerInitializer> sciClass) {
HandlesTypes annotation = sciClass.getAnnotation(HandlesTypes.class);
if (annotation == null) {
return Collections.emptySet();
}
Class[] classesArray = annotation.value();
Set<Class<?>> classesSet = new HashSet<Class<?>>(classesArray.length);
for (Class clazz : classesArray) {
classesSet.add(clazz);
}
return classesSet;
}
}
Other configuration:
JSF are added to project facets
Maven dependencies are added in deployment assembly
When running the application on server, I don't get any errors in fact I see logs meaning that JSF was started successfully:
2017-01-28 16:04:47.145 INFO 6880 --- [ost-startStop-1] hello.Application : Started Application in 13.522 seconds (JVM running for 19.312)
2017-01-28 16:04:47.231 INFO 6880 --- [ost-startStop-1] j.e.resource.webcontainer.jsf.config : Initializing Mojarra 2.2.14 ( 20161114-2153 unable to get svn info) for context '/spring-hibernate-jsf-web'
2017-01-28 16:04:47.539 INFO 6880 --- [ost-startStop-1] j.e.r.webcontainer.jsf.application : JSF1048: PostConstruct/PreDestroy annotations present. ManagedBeans methods marked with these annotations will have said annotations processed.
2017-01-28 16:04:48.557 INFO 6880 --- [ost-startStop-1] j.e.resource.webcontainer.jsf.config : Monitoring file:/C:/Users/lenovo/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/spring-hibernate-jsf-web/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml for modifications
2017-01-28 16:04:48.630 INFO 6880 --- [ost-startStop-1] .w.PostConstructApplicationEventListener : Running on PrimeFaces 6.0
2017-01-28 16:04:48.790 INFO 6880 --- [ main] org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpNioProtocol : Starting ProtocolHandler [ajp-nio-8009]
2017-01-28 16:04:48.799 INFO 6880 --- [ main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina : Server startup in 20021 ms
2017-01-28 16:04:49.463 INFO 6880 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] .a.c.c.C.[.[.[/spring-hibernate-jsf-web] : Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'dispatcherServlet'
2017-01-28 16:04:49.463 INFO 6880 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet : FrameworkServlet 'dispatcherServlet': initialization started
2017-01-28 16:04:49.511 INFO 6880 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet : FrameworkServlet 'dispatcherServlet': initialization completed in 47 ms
When accessing the xhtml page, there are no errors but the jsf and Primefaces components doesn't get rendered. How can I fix this issue?

Answer 1

I found the issue, it's weird, while running the jar on embeded tomcat i was able to access the xhtml pages without the /faces/ prefix but on eclipse tomcat i have to add /faces/ prefix before the xhtml page in order to work properly.