I am just testing out this JSF page, so I don't set the action attribute in the <h:commandButton/>. This is a very simple form with 3 input boxes for First Name, Last Name, and Email, and one button called Save. Every time I click that button, I receive this error
javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /index.xhtml @19,106 value="#{person.firstName}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'person' resolved to null
but if I annotate my JavaBean @ManagedBean, then the form go through just fine, but every time I switch back to using @Named Bean, I receive that error again. I have tried some of the suggestions I found on this site such as restarting the server, checking the presence of the getters, but those did not help.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!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:head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Simple Form Created Using Facelets</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:messages/>
<h:form>
<h:panelGrid columns="2" columnClasses="rightColumn, leftColumn">
<h:outputLabel for="firstName" value="First Name:" />
<h:inputText id="firstName" value="#{person.firstName}"
label="First Name"/>
<h:outputLabel for="lastName" value="Last Name:" />
<h:inputText id="lastName" value="#{person.lastName}" label="Last Name"/>
<h:outputLabel for="email" value="Email:"/>
<h:inputText id="email" value="#{person.email}" label="Email" />
<h:panelGroup />
<h:commandButton value="Submit"/>
</h:panelGrid>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
This is my JavaBean class
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.faces.bean.RequestScoped;
import javax.inject.Named;
@Named
@RequestScoped
public class Person {
private String firstName = "empty";
private String lastName = "empty";
private String email = "empty";
public void Person() {}
public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}
public String getEmail() {
return email;
}
public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}
}
This is the web.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.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>
/WEB-INF/beans.xml? – CopalmRequestScopedshould bejavax.enterprise.context.RequestScopedforCDI. Do not mix theJSFscope andCDIscope. – Amberjackbeans.xmlfile to get CDI Bean to work ? – Hurffweb.xml,faces-config.xmlandbeans.xmlso that bare defaults are used? – Copalmfaces-config.xmlfile, but it did not solve the problem until I added thebeans.xml, but if I removed thebeans.xml, I got that error – Hurff/WEB-INF/lib? – Copalmlibfolder, I just added the JSF jar file by right clicking theLibrariessection in Netbeans, but that did not make any difference since GlassFish has that jar toos – Hurffbeans.xmlwas ever needed explicitly in both 4.0 and 4.1. (The application has already traversed through all Mojarra 2.2.x versions alternatively - starting from Mojarra 2.2.0 to 2.3.0-m01). – Stuppyscriptssubfolder under theresourcesfolder, and theresourcesfolder is underMETA-INFand then at the application root using<h:outputScript />, but I keep gettingUnable to find resource. My structure is like this,JavaServerFacesis the parent directory where all other folders are located, then in it, there is theresourcesfolder, inside theresourcesfolder is thescriptssub folder where the script file is stored – Hurffresourcesfolder directly into the web application root. (META-INFis meant for a standalone module in a separately packaged JAR file which finally ends up in/WEB-INF/libin the associated WAR). – Stuppyresourcesfolder in theJavaServerFacesparent folder, and theresourcesfolder is then sub-divided into smaller folders for better resource organizing, in this case, I hate thescriptssub-folder which contains a dummy javascript file. Aghh, so frustrating, I don't know what is wrong with my GS – Hurff<h:outputScript library="..." name="..." />is going wrong. And please do not forget to hard-deploy the application at least once after these changes have been made. If the problem still persists, you may want to put a separate question. – Stuppy