I finally managed to make MyFaces 1.09 work with SunOne Application Server
7.0.0.7
In fact, there are two problems with it:
1. Security in SunOne prevents web apps to delete files.
SYMPTOM:
MyFaces Web-app can't initialize.
LOG:
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] INFO ( 4584): CORE3282: stdout: 2005-06-30 17:32:49,560
[main] ERROR org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener - Error
initializing ServletContext
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] INFO ( 4584): CORE3282: stdout:
javax.faces.FacesException: java.security.AccessControlException: access
denied (java.io.FilePermission C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\myfaces51482.jar delete)
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] WARNING ( 4584): CORE3283: stderr:
javax.faces.FacesException: java.security.AccessControlException: access
denied (java.io.FilePermission C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\myfaces51482.jar delete)
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] INFO ( 4584): CORE3282: stdout: at
org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.feedJarConfig(FacesConfigurator.java:399)
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] WARNING ( 4584): CORE3283: stderr: at
org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.feedJarConfig(FacesConfigurator.java:399)
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] INFO ( 4584): CORE3282: stdout: at
org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.feedJarFileConfigurations(FacesConfigurator.java:311)
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] WARNING ( 4584): CORE3283: stderr: at
org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.feedJarFileConfigurations(FacesConfigurator.java:311)
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] INFO ( 4584): CORE3282: stdout: at
org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.configure(FacesConfigurator.java:203)
[30/Jun/2005:17:32:49] WARNING ( 4584): CORE3283: stderr: at
org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.configure(FacesConfigurator.java:203)
The problem is that FacesConfigurator writes some temporary .jar files in
order to read their included faces-config.xml, dans then tries to delete
them.
But by default SunOne 7 App server security doesn't allow file delete.
FIX:
Change the security of the application server to allow file deletion.
In the file
C:\Sun\AppServer7\domains\domain1\server1\config\server.policy
Change
permission java.io.FilePermission "<<ALL FILES>>", "read,write";
To
permission java.io.FilePermission "<<ALL FILES>>",
"read,write,delete";
QUESTION:
It will be difficult for me to manage my clients to change their default
security settings.
How can we avoid these temporary jar files ?
2. Once the security is changed, we have another problem because of JSP 2.0
dependency.
SYMPTOM:
Any Jsp page result is blank.
LOG:
No log, no errors on log.
FIX:
SunOne AppServer 7 is J2EE 1.3 compliant, that means it supports jsp
1.2.
As MyFaces is dependant on JSP 2.0, we put the jsp-api-2.0.jar in our
WEB-INF/lib, and this made the error.
In order to make it work, you need to remove all .class from
jsp-api-2.0.jar
excepts the ones in package javax.servlet.jsp.el.
QUESTION:
Isn't there another solution ?
Is it possible to completely get rid of this jsp 2.0 dependency ?
Gérard COLLIN
