Hi Craig,
Thanks for the response and for kindly not drawing attention to the fact
that I claimed to be seeing a NPE but gave the stack trace for a
NoClassDefFoundError. It was late...
So, yes, as you point out it does seem to be a JSF 1.1/1.2 issue. The
application I am trying to test is 1.1 but even with the 1.1 server
runtime libraries available on the classpath I still kept on getting the
error (the server is WAS 6.1 incidentally). The shale-test JAR I was
using is the binary version shipped with the 1.0.4 release and you
prompted me to take a quick look through its contents where I saw a
number of what look to be JSF 1.2 mock classes (that's what the "12"
suffix on the class name means, right ?).
I rebuilt the JAR locally filtering out the "12" mock classes and now
the error has gone away.
Many thanks for your help.
Best regards,
George
Craig McClanahan wrote:
On 6/12/07, George Harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Please help.
I am trying to run some unit tests of JSF classes using
AbstractJsfTestCase as my test case superclass. When I try and run the
tests there is a NPE from inside the AbstractJsfTestCase setUp()
method. Trace is as follows...
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax.el.ELContext
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verifyImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verify(J9VMInternals.java:59)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:120)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:67)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:521)
at
org.apache.shale.test.mock.MockFacesContextFactory.getFacesContext(MockFacesContextFactory.java:164)
at
org.apache.shale.test.base.AbstractJsfTestCase.setUp(AbstractJsfTestCase.java:131)
........
I have spent at least an hour trying to locate a JAR containing the
javax.el.ELContext class to put on the runtime classpath but with no
luck. This is the first time I have tried using the Shale test
framework. Please can someone help put me out ? This must be something
obvious.
Are you building a JSF 1.2 based application? If so, you'll need to
make sure you include the JSF api and implementation JARs, *and* all
of their dependencies (which will include the EL implementation
referenced by the error you are getting. One simple way to do this is
download Glassfish (https://glassfish.dev.java.net) and put the
javaee.jar library from it into your classpath -- that includes the
JSF 1.2 reference implementation and the associated EL machinery.
On the other hand, if you're trying to build a JSF 1.1 application
(javax.el.* did not exist then), be sure you are including a 1.1
runtime instead of a 1.2 runtime.
Best regards,
George
Craig
