Running JSF 1.1 application on Weblogic 12.2.1.4 with latest patches

 HOWTO

• Weblogic Classloader Analysis https://danielveselka.blogspot.com/2013/02/weblogic-classloader-analysis-tool.html 
•  JSF 1 app on Weblogic https://danielveselka.blogspot.com/2013/02/deploy-jsf-11-application-on-weblogic.html
  
•  Java EE Descriptor Schemas https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/jsc/xml/ns/javaee/index.html#2  

 

javax.faces.FacesException: Expression Error: Named Object: not found 

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32799225/javax-faces-facesexception-expression-error-named-object-net-bootsfaces-layou
•  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13035271/javax-faces-facesexception-expression-error-named-object-player-not-found?rq=1
•  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14374311/cannot-find-the-tag-library-descriptor-for-web-inf-struts-html-tld-in-struts 

 

Web app configuration files - placed into WEB-INF

• faces-config.xml - JSF specific
  
• web.xml - web app
  
• weblogic.xml - app server specific
  

Debug compiled JSP pages - use keepgenerated in weblogic.xml to see produced Java code

jsp-descriptor https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11035_01/wls100/webapp/weblogic_xml.html#wp1038491 

 

working-dir

internally generated directory

The name of a directory where WebLogic Server saves the generated Java and compiled class files for a JSP.

keepgenerated

false

Saves the Java files that are generated as an intermediary step in the JSP compilation process. Unless this parameter is set to true, the intermediate Java files are deleted after they are compiled.

TLD files - add custom files into WEB-INF

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tags/customTags.tld"  prefix="tt"%>

 

Faces config - add custom files in faces-config.xml

  <init-param>
   <param-name>config</param-name>
   <param-value>/WEB-INF/custom-config.xml,/WEB-INF/other-custom-config.xml
   </param-value>
  </init-param>