Want to implement ICEFaces in Sun One 7 Web Server

Question

I want to implement the JSF on Sun One Web Server 7.0. I repetitively got the exception:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.icesoft.faces.webapp.http.core.ReceiveSendUpdates at com.icesoft.faces.webapp.http.servlet.MainSessionBoundServlet.(MainSessionBoundServlet.java:136) at com.icesoft.faces.webapp.http.servlet.MainServlet$3.newServer(MainServlet.java:87) at com.icesoft.faces.webapp.http.servlet.SessionDispatcher.checkSession(SessionDispatcher.java:86) at com.icesoft.faces.webapp.http.servlet.SessionDispatcher.service(SessionDispatcher.java:45)

How to solve the issue?

Answer 1

Ick, that's an ancient server! It's from 2003 and it supports at highest the legacy Servlet 2.3 / JSP 1.2. If you want to run JSF on it, you can use at highest JSF 1.1. JSF 1.2 and newer won't work on Servlet 2.3. Most of the component library packs you download nowadays includes JSF 1.2 or even 2.0. You'll need to downgrade that as well with a copy from the archive of http://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net. Maybe something more needs to be taken into account, but that may depend on the exact IceFaces version.

Did you consider upgrading the server? I would warmly recommend it. Servlet 2.3 and JSF 1.1 are at end of life. You ain't going to get any support on them anymore.

Answer 2

Ice Faces Version is 1.8.2