Unable to locate the EL RI expression factory using JBoss EAP 6.2

Question

I'am using Jboss EAP 6.1, Eclipse Kepler, Maven (Version embedded in Eclipse). Then the application starts, I have this error:

            It appears the JSP version of the container 
        is older than 2.1 and unable to locate the EL RI expression factory, 
com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl.  If not using JSP or the EL 
    RI, make sure the context initialization parameter, 
    com.sun.faces.expressionFactory, is properly set.

This is pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>it.imageorder</groupId>
        <artifactId>imageorder</artifactId>
        <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>
    <groupId>it.imageorderwebmodule</groupId>
    <artifactId>ImageOrderWebModule</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>ear</packaging>
    <name>ImageOrderWebModule Maven Webapp</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
    <dependencies>


        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>



        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
            <artifactId>el-impl</artifactId>
            <version>2.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
            <artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
            <version>4.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.0-beta9</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.0-beta9</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <finalName>ImageOrder</finalName>
    </build>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>prime-repo</id>
            <name>PrimeFaces Maven Repository</name>
            <url>http://repository.primefaces.org</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

</project>

The following file is web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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"
    version="3.0">

    <display-name>ImageOrder</display-name>

    <!-- Project stage production -->
    <context-param>
        <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
        <param-value>Development</param-value>
    </context-param>


    <context-param>
        <param-name>javax.faces.DATETIMECONVERTER_DEFAULT_TIMEZONE_IS_SYSTEM_TIMEZONE</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>javax.faces.INTERPRET_EMPTY_STRING_SUBMITTED_VALUES_AS_NULL</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>


    <context-param>
        <param-name>com.sun.faces.expressionFactory</param-name>
        <param-value>com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>
    </context-param>


    <!-- JSF mapping -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <!-- Map these files with JSF -->
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

I have included also the runtime library of Jboss EAP, but it doesn't work.

Can you help me? Thanks

possible duplicate of [Unable to locate the EL RI expression factory](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4849691/unable-to-locate-the-el-ri-expression-factory) — Johny T Koshy, Jan 27 '14 at 02:52

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 15 '14 at 19:32

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I have fixed the problem, I deleted the following contex-param from web.xml:

<context-param>
    <param-name>com.sun.faces.expressionFactory</param-name>
    <param-value>com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>
</context-param>

edited Jul 15 '14 at 19:32

Christian Wilkie

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answered Jan 27 '14 at 22:19

Michel Foucault

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I had this exceptin with tomcat 7, which was very confusing, because tomcat 7 ships with JSP 2.2 (http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html) – zardosht Jun 05 '14 at 12:34

Unable to locate the EL RI expression factory using JBoss EAP 6.2

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