Question

I have a JSF project and I already have an index.xhtml page which is working fine. When I try to add another XHTML page, for some reason it is not connected to my session scoped managed bean. I add the code in my new page but it doesn’t work like my index.xhtml. I even copy and pasted the code from index and it still does not work. Any thoughts?

Here is some of the code I have in my new page:

Amount: <h:inputText value="#{transactionBean.amount}" style="color: Yellow; background: Teal;"/>
Price <h:inputText value="#{transactionBean.pricePaid}" style="color: Yellow; background: Teal;"/

Here is my web.xml:

<?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>
    <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>/faces/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>faces/index.xhtml</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

Answer 1

You’ve mapped the faces servlet on /faces/* instead of *.xhtml. This means that you need to include /faces path in the URL to get the faces servlet to run.

So, you should not open the page by

http://localhost:8080/SharePortfolioJSF/companies.xhtml

but instead by

http://localhost:8080/SharePortfolioJSF/faces/companies.xhtml

Much better, however, is to just use *.xhtml as URL pattern of the faces servlet, so that you don’t need to fiddle with virtual paths.

<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>index.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

(note that your <session-timeout> of 30 minutes is the default already, just remove it)