I'm going through the excersise of upgrading our application from JEE5/Icefaces 1.8.2 to JEE6/Icefaces 3.3. I've followed material I've found here: Migrating from JSF 1.2 to JSF 2.0 as well as the Icefaces provided: http://www.icesoft.org/wiki/display/ICE/ICEfaces+1.x+Compatibility
So now I'm in a place where I can successfully deploy our application to GlassFish 3.
Here is the web.xml:
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
<display-name>pdb</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_SKIP_COMMENTS</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.VALIDATE_EMPTY_FIELDS</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.icesoft.faces.webapp.CompatResourceServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/xmlhttp/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/icefaces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.icefaces.ace.theme</param-name>
<param-value>rime</param-value>
</context-param>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<context-param>
<param-name>com.sun.faces.defaultResourceMaxAge</param-name>
<param-value>604800</param-value>
</context-param>
<error-page>
<exception-type>javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException</exception-type>
<location>/index.html</location>
</error-page>
<!-- ICE FACES ADDED -->
<!-- Facelets Custom Components -->
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/facelets/imsref_common_taglib.xml;/WEB-INF/facelets/imsref_pdb_taglib.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>LifeCycleListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<filter>
<filter-name>RedirectFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>RedirectFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>RedirectFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>Transactions</filter-name>
<filter-class>TransactionalFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Transactions</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<!--Security Settings-->
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name>pdb-auth-realm</realm-name>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/login.jsf</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/loginerror.jsf</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>pdb</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/secure/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
<http-method>HEAD</http-method>
<http-method>PUT</http-method>
<http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
<http-method>TRACE</http-method>
<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>user</role-name>
<role-name>admin</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<!--Security constraint so only admin role can access the monitoring page-->
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>monitoring</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/monitoring</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>admin</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<security-role>
<description>Administrator. Is the super-user. Can do everything. This role includes all other roles.</description>
<role-name>admin</role-name>
</security-role>
<mime-mapping>
<extension>aspx</extension>
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<mime-mapping>
<extension>png</extension>
<mime-type>image/png</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
</web-app>
Now when I navigate to
https://localhost:8181/pdb/secure/main.jspx
I'm redirected to the login page but only the jsf components are being loaded. None of the .css is being loaded, when I navigate to the resources the response from the server is always Content-Length "0" but status 200. Same for any images.
When I authenticate against our realm, I can enter any URL after /pdb/ (i.e any garbage URL like)
https://localhost:8181/pdb/somenonexistantpage
and the server responds with 200 OK and Content-Length "0"
The structure of the application is as follows:
WEB-INF\login.xhtml
WEB-INF\index.xhtml
WEB-INF\loginerror.xhtml
WEB-INF\css\<custom css>
WEB-INF\resources\components\<components>
WEB-INF\resources\images\<images>
WEB-INF\resources\icons\<icons>
WEB-INF\secure\<all .xhtml jsf pages>
The GET request:
https://localhost:8181/pdb/xmlhttp/css/rime/rime.css
returns only the following:
Content-Length:"0"
Date:"Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:31:32 GMT"
Server:"GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2.2"
X-Powered-By:"Servlet/3.0 JSP/2.2 (GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2.2 Java/Oracle Corporation/1.7)"
To close the loop on this problem, my TransactionFilter was failing and we never chained the filter so the resource servlet was never getting hit. I ensured that the following line of code:
chain.doFilter(req, resp);
was getting executed and the resources were finally being loaded properly. I solved this a few weeks ago, but I believe that was the problem.