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Asked: 2026-06-03T15:16:11+00:00

I am new at JSF, so do not assume that it is not some

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I am new at JSF, so do not assume that it is not some dumb mistake.

I am deploying my webapp, from Eclipse Indigo into JBoss 6.1. I can check that the webapp is deployed in the server because an static index.html file works ok (and changes in it are reflected via web browser).

I have a JSF2 Facelet in pages/NewRequest.jsf, which very little logic (in fact it is plain XHTML): 

<!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"
  xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
<h:body>
Hola mundo again....
</h:body>
</html>

My web.xml is the following (I checked that the FaceServlet is configured)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<web-app version="3.0" 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-app_3_0.xsd">
<display-name>GesMan</display-name>
<servlet>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
  <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
  <welcome-file>NewRequest.jsf</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

It all looks legit for me, but when I try to access the JSF I only get a 404 error page that tells me that a JSP with the same name that my JSP does not exist. No error is shown neither in the console nor in the server.log file

Could you tell me what I am doing wrong, or how can I get a more specific error information?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The file extension of the actual view file should represent the view technology used (e.g. .xhtml or .jsp), not the JSF mapping (e.g. .jsf). You should have a pages/NewRequest.xhtml, not a pages/NewRequest.jsf.

    Your other problem is that the welcome file can’t represent a mapped (virtual) filename, but must represent an actual filename. So you need NewRequest.xhtml there. But this in turn requires you that you map the FacesServlet on exactly that URL pattern.

    So, all with all, just simplify the web.xml as follows:

    <servlet>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
  <welcome-file>NewRequest.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

    This way you can continue using .xhtml in URLs without fiddling with virtual URLs.

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