Simple primefaces application not working

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I am trying to build simple JSF application using primefaces but somehow primefaces components are not getting rendered properly. I dont understand what is going wrong.

I am trying to display following Facelet file :

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:p="http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/ui">
    <h:head>
        <link type="text/css" 
                rel="stylesheet"
                href="/Themes/primefaces-dot-luv/theme.css" />
    </h:head>
    <h:body>
        <p:spinner value="100" style="height: 10px" />
        <br/>
        <p:button value="Navigate"></p:button>
    </h:body>
</html>

I am using eclipse to run the app on tomcat server. When I run the application and view the page source in browser(firefox) I get following source :

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:p="http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/ui">
    <head>
        <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="Themes/primefaces-dot-luv/theme.css" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <p:spinner value="100" style="height: 10px"></p:spinner>
        <br />
        <p:button value="Navigate"></p:button>
    </body>
</html>

I think PrimeFaces components are not getting rendered properly. Other JSF tags like <h:head> and <h:body> are converted correctly to <head> and <body> elements respectively. Only tags starting with <p:> are not converted.

Following is my project structure :

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My web.xml looks like this:

<?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" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <display-name>HelloJSF</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
  <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>/faces/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>primefaces.THEME</param-name>
    <param-value>none</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <description>State saving method: 'client' or 'server' (=default). See JSF Specification 2.5.2</description>
    <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
    <param-value>client</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext</param-name>
    <param-value>resources.application</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
  </listener>
  <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>
</web-app>

I am using eclipse , tomcat server. JSF 2 and primefaces 3 library.

Hi, After some close inspection of entire project I found out that primefaces jar dowlonaded from site did not had any classes. Jar itself was corrupt. I downloaded same jar thrice then also jar was getting corrupt. So I downloaded zip file containing source and binaries and my application started working.

Primefaces relies on some automatic registration facilities from the latest Java EE standards that are not implemented by tomcat6. Don't know if it is possible to manually register them. Recent glassfish versions support it however. — Eelke, Aug 28 '11 at 06:30
can you post the contents of the web.xml? Make sure you have the filters for JSF enabled. — aseychell, Aug 28 '11 at 08:00
@Eelke what facilities are you talking about exactly? PF work perfectly well on Tomcat 6. — Mateusz Dymczyk, Aug 28 '11 at 18:50

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '11 at 18:46

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Try changing your web.xml servlet mapping:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

The way to tell if the Facelets Servlet is processing your xhtml is to look at what the browser receives. If it looks like your xhtml file then you have something mis-configured.

answered Aug 28 '11 at 18:46

AlanObject

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The JSF core, HTML and Facelets taglibs are however properly parsed, so `FacesServlet` is definitely been invoked. – BalusC Aug 28 '11 at 18:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 02 '12 at 10:10

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Your need change

xmlns:p="http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/ui"

to

xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"

edited Oct 02 '12 at 10:10

j0k

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answered Aug 06 '12 at 11:22

ratking

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This was introduced since 3.0 M4, but OP is using 3.0 M2. So this answer is wrong. Note that the currently accepted answer of AlanObject is also wrong; the OP already solved the problem by itself (see the quote at the bottom of the question), but the OP never posted it as an answer for some reason (which is indeed confusing and not the right way to use Stack Overflow). – BalusC Aug 06 '12 at 12:24

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 13 '14 at 07:13

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You should change your namespace into xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"

and implement button like this way

 <p:commandButton value="Home" process="@this" action="actionMethod()" immediate="true" rendered="true or renderingMethod()" />

edited Jan 13 '14 at 07:13

Baby Groot

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answered Jan 13 '14 at 06:56

Simple primefaces application not working

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