JSF Faces Bridge get java.lang.NullPointerException when deploying to oc4j container - oracle

Question

I am running JDeveloper 10.1.3.4 with the webcenter pre-configured oc4j.
I'm trying to portletize a vanilla JSF webcenter project.
I create a application using the webcenter application template.
Add a JSF JSP, simple called it index with all the default values.
Add a deployment profile and deploy to local oc4j
navigate to the jsf page and everything works.
right click on ViewController and add the library Portlet Faces Bridge
right click on ViewController and add a Portlet Deployment descriptor.
Edit portlet.xml with the values from link text
in portlet.xml i replace the Default page view with my /index.jspx
when i try to deploy to local oc4j i get the follow
---- Deployment started. ---- May 1, 2009 2:29:37 PM Target platform is
Standalone OC4J 10g 10.1.3
(localAppServer). Wrote WAR file to
C:\jdevstudio10134\jdev\mywork\test\ViewController\deploy\webapp2.war
Wrote EAR file to
C:\jdevstudio10134\jdev\mywork\test\ViewController\deploy\webapp2.ear
Backing up generic archive file
:/C:/jdevstudio10134/jdev/mywork/test/ViewController/deploy/webapp2_generic.ear
Creating WSDLs for the WSRP
Application WSDLs for the WSRP
Application have been created
Uploading file webapp2.ear ...
Uploading file webapp2.ear ...
Application Deployer for webapp2
STARTS. Copy the archive to
C:\jdevstudio10134\j2ee\home\applications\webapp2.ear
Initialize
C:\jdevstudio10134\j2ee\home\applications\webapp2.ear
begins... Unpacking webapp2.ear Done
unpacking webapp2.ear Unpacking
webapp2.war Done unpacking webapp2.war
Initialize
C:\jdevstudio10134\j2ee\home\applications\webapp2.ear
ends... Starting application : webapp2
Initializing ClassLoader(s)
application : webapp2 is in failed
state Operation failed with error:
java.lang.NullPointerException
Deployment failed Elapsed time for
deployment: 3 seconds
Deployment incomplete. #### May 1, 2009 2:29:40 PM
if i deploy the WAR file by hand and navigate to the page i get 500 internal server error.
09/05/01 14:49:21.984 webapp2: Servlet
error java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:346)
at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:152)
at oracle.portlet.server.bridges.jsf.PortletViewHandlerImpl.renderView(PortletViewHandlerImpl.java:73)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:107)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:268)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:137)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:214)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0)
].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher
.java:713)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0)
].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher
.java:370)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0)
].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.doProcessRequest(HttpRequestHandler
.java:871)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0)
].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler
.java:453)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0)
].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.serveOneRequest(HttpRequestHandler
.java:221)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0)
].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:122)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0)
].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:111)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketReadHandler$SafeRunnable.run(ServerSocketReadHandler.java:260)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0)
].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor
.java:303)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
My portlet.xml file looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<portlet-app version="1.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd">
<portlet>
<description>myapp</description>
<portlet-name>test</portlet-name>
<display-name>myapp</display-name>
<portlet-class>oracle.portlet.server.bridges.jsf.FacesPortlet
</portlet-class>
<init-param>
<name>DefaultPage.view</name>
<value>/index.jspx</value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<name>BridgeLifecycleListeners</name>
<value>
oracle.portlet.server.bridges.jsf.adf.ADFFacesBridgeLifecycleListener,
oracle.portlet.server.bridges.jsf.adf.BindingFacesBridgeLifecycleListener
</value>
</init-param>
<supports>
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
<portlet-mode>VIEW</portlet-mode>
</supports>
<supported-locale>en</supported-locale>
<portlet-info>
<title>myapp</title>
<short-title>test</short-title>
</portlet-info>
</portlet>
</portlet-app>
...if i delete the file and redeploy the jspx page works fine.

Answer 1

you should move to jdev 11g which uses wls which is much better than oc4j