How to update JSF 2.2 to JSF 2.3 using Maven in a Spring Application

Question

I'm using MAVEN and already changed my pom.xml dependencies from:

<dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
        <artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.14</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
        <artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.13</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>

to:

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.faces</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.0</version>
    </dependency>

but now I get a build error:

javax.faces.FacesException: Unable to find CDI BeanManager at com.sun.faces.el.ELUtils.tryAddCDIELResolver(ELUtils.java:312) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.el.ELUtils.buildFacesResolver(ELUtils.java:242) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate.initializeELResolverChains(ApplicationAssociate.java:484) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.performOneTimeELInitialization(ApplicationImpl.java:1404) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.getELResolver(ApplicationImpl.java:526) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:256) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4725) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5189) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1403) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1393) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [na:1.8.0_111] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [na:1.8.0_111] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [na:1.8.0_111] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_111]

2017-05-15 11:12:44.071 ERROR 9936 --- [ost-startStop-1] o.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat].[localhost].[/] : Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener

java.lang.RuntimeException: javax.faces.FacesException: Unable to find CDI BeanManager at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:315) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4725) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5189) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1403) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1393) [tomcat-embed-core-8.5.5.jar:8.5.5] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [na:1.8.0_111] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [na:1.8.0_111] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [na:1.8.0_111] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_111] Caused by: javax.faces.FacesException: Unable to find CDI BeanManager at com.sun.faces.el.ELUtils.tryAddCDIELResolver(ELUtils.java:312) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.el.ELUtils.buildFacesResolver(ELUtils.java:242) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate.initializeELResolverChains(ApplicationAssociate.java:484) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.performOneTimeELInitialization(ApplicationImpl.java:1404) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.getELResolver(ApplicationImpl.java:526) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0] at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:256) ~[javax.faces-2.3.0.jar:2.3.0]

I also updated the version in my faces-config.xml to 2.3:

<faces-config 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/web-facesconfig_2_2.xsd"
          version="2.3">
<application>
    <el-resolver>org.springframework.web.jsf.el.SpringBeanFacesELResolver</el-resolver>
    <el-resolver>org.primefaces.application.exceptionhandler.PrimeExceptionHandlerELResolver</el-resolver>
</application>

<factory>
    <exception-handler-factory>org.primefaces.application.exceptionhandler.PrimeExceptionHandlerFactory</exception-handler-factory>
</factory>

Are there more changes to make in the pom.xml or anywhere else in my application?

Answer 1

Old question, but for people still facing this problem: To avoid the "Unable to find CDI BeanManager" error, it's important that your faces-config.xml version is not 2.3 and your web.xml version is not 4.0!

The Mojarra implementation ELUtils class contains the following nice bit of code:

if (getFacesConfigXmlVersion(facesContext).equals("2.3") || getWebXmlVersion(facesContext).equals("4.0")) {
                throw new FacesException("Unable to find CDI BeanManager");
}

When using lower versions, it skips this check, and works with Spring DI instead of CDI.

Answer 2

1. Add CDI and weld dependency pom.xml

   <dependency>
       <groupId>javax.enterprise</groupId>
       <artifactId>cdi-api</artifactId>
       <version>1.2</version>
   </dependency>
   
   <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.weld.servlet</groupId>
       <artifactId>weld-servlet</artifactId>
       <version>2.2.9.Final</version>
   </dependency>
   

2. create beans.xml in WEB-INF

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <beans
       xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:weld="http://jboss.org/schema/weld/beans"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://jboss.org/schema/cdi/beans_1_0.xsd
       http://jboss.org/schema/weld/beans http://jboss.org/schema/weld/beans_1_1.xsd">
   
     <weld:scan>
       <weld:exclude name="org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.cdi.**" />
       <weld:exclude name="com.example.beans.**" />
     </weld:scan>
   </beans>