Getting Started

Sample

For sample code check out the project: sample-facelets

There are further notes in the site documents - and see notes on components, components.

Links

https://facelets.dev.java.net/
O’Reilly - Short Cuts - Facelets:
```
../../misc/howto/jsf/0596529244.pdf
```
JBoss Seam
Facelets Tag Completion in Eclipse
Introducing Facelets

Maven Dependencies

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>dev.java.net</id>
    <name>dev.java.net-repo</name>
    <url>https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/repository/</url>
    <layout>legacy</layout>
  </repository>
  <repository>
    <id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
    <name>Java.net Repository for Maven</name>
    <url>https://maven2-repository.dev.java.net/nonav/repository</url>
    <layout>default</layout>
  </repository>
</repositories>

Issues

Tomcat: could not find Factory

root cause
java.lang.IllegalStateException:
    Application was not properly initialized at startup,
    could not find Factory: javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory

It seems to be a listener issue. Listener is possibly configured in a tld inside jsf-impl.jar and Tomcat 5.5.20 can’t extract that info. Configuring the listener inside web.xml should solve it.

This equates to adding the following web.xml to workaround this problem:

<listener>
  <listener-class>
    com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
  </listener-class>
</listener>

<!-- Listener implementation to handle web application lifecycle events -->
<listener>
  <listener-class>
    com.sun.faces.application.WebappLifecycleListener
  </listener-class>
</listener>