InternalError 500 on Faces pages

Andrew Rader <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:07:13 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.httpunit.devel
Message-ID	<OFA0071602.C9EBD2A4-ON8725713E.005789F8-8525713E.00584C3E@us.ibm.com>
Hi all,

I'm pretty new to both HttpUnit and Java Server Faces, and I'm having a 
problem I can quite tackle.

I currently have HttpUnit setup and working, I use it to test several 
different types of pages on a few different servers, and it all works 
according to plan. Except for when I test any Faces pages I have. Here's 
the problem:

The webserver returns pages fine to various clients (Firefox, IE, etc) 
however, when HttpUnit goes to connect to it, it returns an 
InternalErrorException (response 500). I used a network traffic monitoring 
tool to determine where the differences in requests lie. The only 
difference between, say, Firefox and HttpUnit were the UserAgent and 
Accept lines of the Header, so I setup HttpUnit to mimic Firefox. This 
didn't solve anything.

on Apache Tomcat 5.5, HttpUnit gets the following response, however, 
Firefox/IE all work fine:

The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from 
fulfilling this request.
exception 
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Exception in JSP: /testfaces1.jsp:11

8: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
charset=ISO-8859-1">
9: <title>testfaces1.jsp</title>
10: </head>
11: <f:view>
12:              <body>
13:              <p>Place content here.</p>
14:              </body>


Stacktrace:
 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:504)
 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:375)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

root cause 
javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot find FacesContext
 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:858)
 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:791)
 org.apache.jsp.testfaces1_jsp._jspService(testfaces1_jsp.java:70)
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

root cause 
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find FacesContext
 javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.doStartTag(UIComponentTag.java:399)
 com.sun.faces.taglib.jsf_core.ViewTag.doStartTag(ViewTag.java:106)
 org.apache.jsp.testfaces1_jsp._jspx_meth_f_view_0(testfaces1_jsp.java:85)
 org.apache.jsp.testfaces1_jsp._jspService(testfaces1_jsp.java:61)
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

Any help will be appreciated, thanks
-Andrew