Well, I agree with that assessment. It is rather tedious. Do you use a logger in your application? I use log4j and set the properties file for my app packages to DEBUG. You can do the same with the myfaces packages. You also use commons-logging, which is what myfaces uses. I'm not sure how to configure those properties. But in log4j you can specify:
log4j.logger.org.apache.myfaces=DEBUG In tomcat there are a few log files. I get one for my app (the one I setup with log4j) and there's a jvm.stdout (or stdout/stderr on windows) and a localhost_log.DATE.txt that tomcat creates. I usually have to look in all three to figure out where the error got dumped. ----- Original Message ----- From: "CupertinoIndian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:41 PM Subject: Re: Navigation not working in MyFaces (works with Sun's RI) > > Rob Decker <rob <at> objectsource.org> writes: > > > > > You should look in the log files of your servlet container for errors. Since > > it goes somewhere (a blank page) something must of happened. The log files > > probably have an error in them. > > > > > Thanks for your response Rob. I looked into the server logs. It does not spit > out any errors. The application simply works in SunRI. But with Myfaces it works > for first 2 pages. The second page submits the page to itself and it comes up as > blank. I even read the HTML generated and stepped through the application, I am > still not sure what is going on. How does everybody debug JSF applications? I > can see debug as a big pain point in JSF. >
