I am running a webapp on a glassfish v3 server. I’ve just added richfaces

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I am running a webapp on a glassfish v3 server. I’ve just added richfaces

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I am running a webapp on a glassfish v3 server. I’ve just added richfaces to my application, but I get an error when i try running my project:

INFO: Initializing Mojarra 2.0.2 (FCS b10) for context '/WMC'
INFO: Unsanitized stacktrace from failed start...
java.lang.RuntimeException: WEB9033: Unable to load class with name [org.ajax4jsf.taglib.html.facelets.ActionParamHandler], reason: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/facelets/tag/jsf/ComponentHandler
        at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:944)
        at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1420)
        at com.sun.faces.util.Util.loadClass(Util.java:203)
        at com.sun.faces.config.processor.AbstractConfigProcessor.loadClass(AbstractConfigProcessor.java:313)
        at com.sun.faces.config.processor.FaceletTaglibConfigProcessor.processComponent(FaceletTaglibConfigProcessor.java:568)
        at com.sun.faces.config.processor.FaceletTaglibConfigProcessor.processTags(FaceletTaglibConfigProcessor.java:361)
        at com.sun.faces.config.processor.FaceletTaglibConfigProcessor.processTagLibrary(FaceletTaglibConfigProcessor.java:314)
        at com.sun.faces.config.processor.FaceletTaglibConfigProcessor.process(FaceletTaglibConfigProcessor.java:263)
        at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigManager.initialize(ConfigManager.java:337)
        at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:223)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:4591)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.contextListenerStart(WebModule.java:535)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5193)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:499)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:928)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:912)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:694)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1933)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1605)
        at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:90)
        at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:126)
        at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:241)
        at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:236)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:339)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:183)
        at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:272)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$1.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:305)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:320)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1176)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$900(CommandRunnerImpl.java:83)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1235)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1224)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.doCommand(AdminAdapter.java:365)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.service(AdminAdapter.java:204)
        at com.sun.grizzly.tcp.http11.GrizzlyAdapter.service(GrizzlyAdapter.java:166)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.HK2Dispatcher.dispath(HK2Dispatcher.java:100)
        at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:245)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:791)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:693)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:954)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:170)
        at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:135)
        at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:102)
        at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:88)
        at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:76)
        at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:53)
        at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:57)
        at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:69)
        at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:330)
        at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:309)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/facelets/tag/jsf/ComponentHandler
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
        at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:914)
        ... 50 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentHandler
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
        at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:949)
        at org.glassfish.web.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1420)
        ... 55 more

My web.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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">
    <context-param>
        <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
        <param-value>Development</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>
        <param-value>blueSky</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING</param-name>
        <param-value>enable</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <filter>
        <display-name>RichFaces Filter</display-name>
        <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
        <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
        <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
    </filter-mapping>
    <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><session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            10
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config><welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
    <resource-ref>
        <res-ref-name>mail/WMCMail_LogicalName</res-ref-name>
        <res-type>javax.mail.Session</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
    </resource-ref>
</web-app>

And I’ve added the following libs to my project

I’ve tried to include jsf-facelets.jar but this results in some version conflicts. Do you know what to do?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-16T08:15:51+00:00

Glassfish ships with builtin JSF 2.0 libraries. RichFaces 3.3.0 is not compatible with JSF 2.0.

You have 2 options:

Downgrade JSF 2.0 to JSF 1.2. You need to supply your own (or RichFaces-provided) JSF 1.2 libraries in /WEB-INF/lib and instruct Glassfish to use the supplied JSF instead by setting useBundledJsf property in /WEB-INF/sun-web.xml to true:
```
<sun-web-app>
    <class-loader delegate="false"/>
    <property name="useBundledJsf" value="true"/>
</sun-web-app>
```
Upgrade RichFaces 3.x to at least 3.3.3. It has partial JSF 2.0 support. How to get it to work is described in this document.

For full JSF 2.0 support by RichFaces, you’ve wait for RichFaces 4.0 to be final. As far now, PrimeFaces and OpenFaces are one of the few with full JSF 2.0 support.

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