That's why I added the war file [http://www.nabble.com/file/8109/ce.tests.war ce.tests.war] which is deployed correctly in JBoss...
Part of the jboss ouput: 14:08:45,234 INFO [ConnectionFactoryBindingService] Bound ConnectionManager 'jboss.jca:service=ConnectionFactoryBinding,name=JmsXA' to JNDI name 'jav a:JmsXA' 14:08:46,375 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/ce.tests, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp64783ce.tests-exp.war/ 14:08:46,687 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading standard config org/apache/myfaces/resource/standard-faces-config.xml 14:08:46,796 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config jar:file:/C:/DOKUME~1/martin6/LOKALE~1/Temp/myfaces64784.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml 14:08:47,015 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config jar:file:/C:/DOKUME~1/martin6/LOKALE~1/Temp/myfaces64785.jar!/META-INF/faces-config.xml 14:08:47,437 INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml 14:08:56,937 INFO [StartupServletContextListener] ServletContext 'D:\jboss-4.0.5.ga\server\default\.\tmp\deploy\tmp64783ce.tests-exp.war\' initialize d. 14:08:56,937 INFO [MyFacesServlet] MyFacesServlet for context 'D:\jboss-4.0.5.ga\server\default\.\tmp\deploy\tmp64783ce.tests-exp.war\' initialized. 14:08:57,109 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/jmx-console, warUrl=.../deploy/jmx-console.war/ 14:08:57,437 INFO [Http11BaseProtocol] Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-0.0.0.0-8080 14:08:57,609 INFO [ChannelSocket] JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009 14:08:57,625 INFO [JkMain] Jk running ID=0 time=0/47 config=null 14:08:57,625 INFO [Server] JBoss (MX MicroKernel) [4.0.5.GA (build: CVSTag=Branch_4_0 date=200610162339)] Started in 40s:688ms 14:09:13,140 INFO [tests]] No state saving method defined, assuming default server state saving 14:09:13,453 INFO [STDOUT] Using bean id 1 14:09:13,453 INFO [STDOUT] context is null! 14:09:13,453 INFO [STDOUT] Duke's number: 7 14:09:13,468 INFO [STDOUT] context is null! Mike Kienenberger wrote: > > I'm assuming you're asking why your backing bean code isn't being > called from inside the JSF lifecycle. > > I don't know. You haven't provided any information about what code is > being called or how. > > > On 4/27/07, Trumml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Well, thanks for the fast answer but what do you mean by "executing >> external >> to JSF"? >> Why isn't my backing bean inside the JSF lifecycle? >> >> >> Mike Kienenberger wrote: >> > >> > I'm changing this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. The dev list is >> > for working on the MyFaces source code. >> > >> > FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() is only non-null during the JSF >> > lifecycle. >> > Apparently you're executing your backing bean code external to JSF. >> > >> > On 4/27/07, Trumml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I want to access the HTTP session inside of a backing bean. >> >> I use jboss-4.0.5 and the attached war file: >> >> http://www.nabble.com/file/8109/ce.tests.war ce.tests.war >> >> But FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() always returns null :-( >> >> >> >> Can anyone give me some help? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: >> >> >> http://www.nabble.com/Access-to-context-of-HTTP-session-tf3657714.html#a10219374 >> >> Sent from the My Faces - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Access-to-context-of-HTTP-session-tf3657743.html#a10219687 >> Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Access-to-context-of-HTTP-session-tf3657743.html#a10232407 Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.