JSF tags are not being rendered [duplicate]

Question

I'm starting a JSF project (this is the first time I've used JSF) and I'm having problems with the tags being rendered. I'm developing in Eclipse and using TomCat as a server.

• My login.jsp file: https://gist.github.com/code-curve/e7e557262d407dddd1f3

• My web.xml file: https://gist.github.com/code-curve/52902b7605b780dea93f

• Eclipse project structure: http://snag.gy/P8Sts.jpg

• Server startup log: https://gist.github.com/code-curve/d1927a636052607ce16a

I am accessing the file with this url: http://localhost:8080/DeutschAkademie/login.jsp and as I understand the <h:form> tag should render as <form>, but instead it's instead rendering as <h:form>. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Two advices:

1. Update the URL pattern for Faces Servlet. The default configuration can be for *.jsp (no need to use *.faces or something else. Still, I would recommend using *.xhtml.

2. JSF 2 works with Facelets, so you don't need to use old JSP anymore. By reading your login.jsp page content, you can just rename the extension from jsp to xhtml and it will work.

Based on these, the web.xml will look like this:

<web-app>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>login.xhtml</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

And having login.xhtml file.

To access to your page you will only need to write http://localhost:8080/DeutschAkademie/login.xhtml in your browser address bar.

Related:

• why don't my jsf tags work?

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EDIT:

Based on the picture of your project, the WEB-INF/lib folder is clean. You should drop the JSF 2 libraries there. Add them, recompile your project and try it again.