Question

I’ve problem in properly setup a jsf2 project with tomcat.
Configuration:

• Eclipse Indigo x64 (IDE for Java EE developers)
• Tomcat 7.0.22 x64
• JDK 1.7.0
• JSF API: version 2.1.3
• JSF Implementation: Primefaces 3.0.M3
• Project facets: Dynamic Web module 3.0, Java 1.7, JavaScript 1.0, JavaServer Faces 2.0

I configure my tomcat v7.0 server in Eclipse, then add my project to the server, run tomcat from within Eclipse.
Then, when I browse localhost:8080/myapp, Tomcat send me a 404 error. When I look in <workspace-root>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps I see my webapp with all config files, namely web.xml, but it seems that Tomcat doesn’t know it.
My web.xml file has the following web-app element configuration:

<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_3_0.xsd" version="3.0">

Moreover, when I start tomcat server, I see on the console view the usual output log string:
Info: Initializing Mojarra 2.1.3 (FCS 20110908) for context ‘/mycontext’
so it seemed to me that all is configured fine.
What I’m missing?

Answer 1

Make sure that your <welcome-file> in web.xml is properly set and points to an existing file.