web app not working HTTP 404 status

**ShinTec** · 01-31-2011, 10:42 AM

Hi Forum
my web app is not working every time i try and run it it come up with the HTTP 404 status
using Tomcat 6.029, eclispe hellios, JSF 2.0
hear is my code
//-------------------------------
web.xml

Java Code:

<?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"
  version="2.5">
  <!-- The bare minimum needed for JSF 2.0 is a servlet 2.5
      declaration and the mapping for the FacesServlet.
      Setting PROJECT_STAGE to Development is highly recommended
      during initial development so that you get more helpful
      error messages.
      
      From JSF 2.0 tutorial at http://www.coreservlets.com/JSF-Tutorial/jsf2/
  -->
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
    <param-value>Development</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

//-----------------------
faces.config has nothing in it

Java Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<faces-config xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
      http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
   version="2.0">
  <!--  Empty for now. Your entries will go here. But even
        if you have no entries in faces-config.xml, you are required
        to have a valid faces-config.xml file with legal 
        start and end tags.
        
        From JSF 2.0 tutorial at http://www.coreservlets.com/JSF-Tutorial/jsf2/ -->
        
   
</faces-config>

//--------------------------------------
welcome page

Java Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http:/www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 	   xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
 	   <!-- This is the welcome page
	  which displays a button that random select
	  page1,2 or 3 and then display it.-->
	  
 	   <h:head><title>Welcome Page</title></h:head>
 	   <h:body>
 	   <div align="center">
 	   <h2>Press button to return a random page</h2>
 	   <h:commandButton value="select random page" action="#{aBasicBean.doNavigation}"/>
 	   </div>
 	   </h:body>
 
 
</html>

//-------------------------------
page1.xhtml

Java Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
	  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
	  <!-- This is the lst results page 
	  which displays words related to the number one
	  in english ,samoan and japanese-->
	  <h:head>
	  </h:head>
	  <h:body>
	  <div align="center">
	  <table border="5">
	  <tr><th class="title">Results page 1</th></tr>
	  </table>
	  <p/>
	  <h1>One Tasi ichi</h1>
	  
	  </div>
	  
	  
	  </h:body>

</html>

//--------------------------------------
page2.xhtml

Java Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
	  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com//jsaf/html">
	  <!-- This is the second results page 
	  which displays words related to the number two 
	  in english ,samoan and japanese-->
	 <h:head></h:head>
	 <h:body>
	 <div align="center">
	 <table border="5">
	  <tr><th class="title">Results page 2</th></tr>	 
	 </table>
	 <p/>
	 <h1>Two Lua Ni</h1>
	 </div>
	 </h:body>
</html>

//-------------------------------------
page3.xhtml

Java Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org//TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
	  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com//jsf/html">
	   <!-- This is the three results page 
	  which displays words related to the number three 
	  in english ,samoan and japanese-->
	  <h:head></h:head>
	  <h:body>
	  <div align="center">
	  <table border="5">
	  <tr><th class="title">Results page 3</th></tr>
	  </table>
	  <p/>
	  <h1>Three Tolu San</h1>
	  </div>
	  </h:body>

</html>

//-----------------------------
index.jsp

Java Code:

<% response.sendRedirect("welcome.jsf"); %>

//------------------------------
ABasicBean

Java Code:

package aNewPackage;

/*a simple backing bean
with a method that does my navigation*/

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;

@ManagedBean(name="aBasicBean")
public class ABasicBean 
{
	//private attributes
	
	//constructor
	
	
	//class methods
	public String doNavigation()
	{
		String [] results = {"page1","page2","page3"};
		return(RandomUtils.randomElement(results));
	}
	
	//get set methods
	

}//end of bean aBasicBean

//--------------------------------------------------
class RandomUtils

Java Code:

package aNewPackage;

/*this class is a utility class
it has one method. can add more
if you desire*/
public class RandomUtils 
{
	
	/*This method returns randomly selects
	a single string from an array of String 
	*/
	public static String randomElement(String [] arrayGiven)
	{
		//create local variables
		String results;
		int randomNum;
		
		//now calculating random number
		randomNum=(int)Math.random() * (arrayGiven.length - 1);
		
		/*now using random num to randomly select a string value
		so it can be assigned to the results variable then 
		returing it*/
		 results=arrayGiven[randomNum];
	
		return results;
	}//end of method randomElement
	//--------------------------------------------------

}//end of class RandomUtils

//------------------------------
why is this error showing up :confused:
any help would be much appreciated and thank you in advance

**doWhile** · 01-31-2011, 03:02 PM

404 is a not found error. Make sure your war is in the correct location and that the URL you use to lookup its contents points to the correct location.