JBoss AS 7.1.1 not picking up my JSF implementation

Question

When I deploy my .war file in JBoss AS 7.1.1 and call

FacesContext.class.getPackage().getImplementationTitle() 

and

FacesContext.class.getPackage().getImplementationVersion()

I get a different version then when I deploy it on tomcat.

JBoss: JSF JavaServer Faces API 2.0.1.Final

Tomcat: JSF Mojarra 2.0.6-FCS

It seems JBoss is not picking the correct JARs that I have in my WEB-INF\lib\. This causes different behaviour in my website. I tried to solve the problem with

<context-param>
   <param-name>org.jboss.jbossfaces.WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL</param-name>
   <param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

But that didn't work. I read Alternative JSF implementation with JBoss 71 but apparently it is not solved in 7.1.1.

I added jboss-deployment-structure.xml to WEB-INF\ with the following content.

<jboss-deployment-structure> 
<deployment>
    <exclusions>
      <module name="javax.faces.api" slot="main"/>
      <module name="com.sun.jsf-impl" slot="main"/>
    </exclusions>
    <dependencies>
      <module name="org.apache.commons.logging" />
      <module name="org.apache.commons.collections" />
      <module name="org.apache.log4j" />
      <module name="org.dom4j" />
      <module name="javax.faces.api" slot="1.2"/>
      <module name="com.sun.jsf-impl" slot="1.2"/>
    </dependencies>
  </deployment>   
</jboss-deployment-structure>

But then my app is not deployed and I get the following errors in server.log:

14:06:14,733 SEVERE [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.config] (MSC service thread 1-4) Critical error during deployment: : com.sun.faces.config.ConfigurationException: CONFIGURATION FAILED! Class org.jboss.as.web.deployment.jsf.JandexAnnotationProvider is not an instance of com.sun.faces.spi.AnnotationProvider
at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigManager.initialize(ConfigManager.java:357) [jsf-impl.jar:2.0.6-FCS]

How can I solve my problem?

Answer 1

Could there be something else that depends on the JSF API? I'm not sure why it would be different between JBoss and Tomcat, but try running mvn dependency:tree and mvn dependency:analyze with and without the JSF excluded.