I’ve recently been looking at JavaServer Faces (specifically Apache’s MyFaces), playing about on my home Tomcat 5.5.27 installation, using Maven2 to do my dependency management, builds etc…
…largely unsuccessfully. I just could not get the darned example app to start, with exceptions along the lines of:
20-Apr-2009 22:27:04 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ExpressionFactory
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.getFacesInitializer…
appearing in the tomcat localhost log files.
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