javax.faces.el.VariableResolver Classcast Exception with SpringBeanFacesELResolver

Question

I am trying to upgrade to JSF2 and Spring 3.0.5, I am getting the following error when I deploy to Tomcat.

Any help appreciated.

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Answer 1

You don't give too much information but you must have something wrong in your configuration. Tips:

• Wrong Spring or JSF version or some library is stuck in Tomcat lib. Are you using any kind of dependency management? What is the exact version of your spring-web-xxx.jar? What JSF implementation are you using? What's the version of that one?

• Wrong schemalocation / version in any of your xml config files. Exception suggests the problem is with faces config. It should look like this:

  <faces-config 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-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
            version="2.0">
  <application>
      <el-resolver>org.springframework.web.jsf.el.SpringBeanFacesELResolver</el-resolver>
  </application>
  

You can find some examples here and here. If you are not able to resolve the issue, please post some of your config files. (appcontext.xml, web.xml, faces-config.xml)